It’s Still the Media, Stupid

by Antonius Aquinas
Acting Man

Weapons of Mass Deception – the Pravda Complex

The US Presidential campaign has demonstrated once again that the mainstream mass media is still the dominant force and arbitrator of political events and if it is successful in pushing the Wicked Witch of Chappaqua past the finish line this November, it may have achieved its greatest triumph.

[…] A note by PT: We have decided to introduce a new term for the mainstream media in light of the astonishing “Gleichschaltung” of the Western press in recent years. The recent propaganda effort on behalf of Hillary Clinton against Donald Trump is the sad culmination of a trend that has been in train for many years. It is so blatant and brazen, that we will henceforth refer to the MSM as the “Pravda Complex”. Pravda is the Russian word for truth, and was the name of the former Soviet Union’s largest newspaper. Early in his career, Stalin was incidentally the Pravda’s editor. Most people in the Soviet Union were well aware that they were lied to, especially in the final two decades when the communist system entered its accelerated decay phase. Articles in newspapers such as the Pravda were widely ridiculed in private. The propaganda was rather obvious, simply because reality offered such a stark contrast to the glowing descriptions of the party’s achievements. In that sense, today’s Western Pravda Complex is more insidious and dangerous, as many people have not yet fully realized what a thicket of lies and omissions they represent.

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