Taibbi: "The Sovietization of the American Press"

Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street and building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And the process is continuing day by day and minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the party is always right.

George Orwell, he/his/him

Reality in Soviet news was 100% binary, with all people either heroes or villains, and the villains all in league with one another (an SR was no better than a fascist or a "Right-Trotskyite Bandit", a kind of proto-horseshoe theory). Other ideas were not represented, except to be attacked and deconstructed. Also, since anything good was all good, politicians were not described as people at all but paragons of limitless virtue — 95% of most issues of Pravda or Izvestia were just names of party leaders surrounded by lists of applause-words, like "glittering", "full-hearted", "wise", "mighty", "courageous", "in complete moral-political union with the people", etc.

Some of the headlines in the U.S. press lately sound suspiciously like this kind of work:

— Biden stimulus showers money on Americans, sharply cutting poverty

— Champion of the middle class comes to the aid of the poor

— Biden's historic victory for America

The most Soviet of the recent efforts didn't have a classically Soviet headline. "Comedians are struggling to parody Biden. Let's hope this doesn't last", read the Washington Post opinion piece by Richard Zoglin, arguing that Biden is the first president in generations who might be "impervious to impressionists". Zoglin contended Biden is "impregnable" to parody, his voice being too "devoid of obvious quirks", his manner too "muted and self-effacing" to offer comedians much to work with. He was talking about this person:

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Taibbi: "The Sovietization of the American Press"

Learn to recognize the "leftist" traitors. Taibbi should either get on with the program or shut up.