Did Pravda’s Reporters Spy For Us?

[Flanders]

Well-known facts about journalism’s long love affair with Socialism/Communism began in earnest in the early 1930s:

More American journalists were involved in spying for the Soviet Union than was previously believed, according to new research published in the Journal of Slavic Military Studies.​

Taqiyya the Liar is himself a Communist; so I never believed the crapola that he and the media were mortal enemies. Every time I turn on the TV —— up pops the Chicago sewer rat lying like hell about issue after issue as though every betrayal is a great victory for Americans. It makes no sense to think of him and the media as enemies.

NOTE: The sewer rat opening diplomatic relations with Cuba is twofold. Communism in Cuba and Venezuela both get a lifeline. Venezuela no longer has to subsidize Cuba’s Communist economy the way the defunct Soviet Union once did. American taxpayers will assume the burden.

Consider this: As far back as the 1920s, the KGB began recruiting spies:

The KGB used journalists because they were able to meet many people in different fields and could ask probing questions without sparking suspicion. In a 1941 report the KGB noted that many of its journalist spies were “highly developed intellectually and occupied high social positions.” They not only attended college in the 1920s and 30s when few Americans did, but they were accepted into the best universities. This allowed these eventual KGB recruits to mingle with fellow students who would go on to occupy senior posts in government with access to sought-after information.​

Communists began infiltrating America’s institutions before and during WWII. When WWII ended starry-eyed young Communists quickly found positions, and advancement, in the institutions that had been previously infiltrated; most notably colleges and universities, federal bureaucracies, newspapers, magazines, and the movie industry regardless of the so-called Hollywood Blacklist that, in effect, sacrificed a small handful of writers, actors and directors who actually were Communists.

In the 1960s, television became Communism’s greatest success story not only in network news divisions, but in the propaganda value of entertainment shows. Hollywood’s propaganda activities paled by comparison to the stuff fictional television shows achieved. Example: Fictional TV shows successfully planted the ideas that there is such a thing as International law, and that the United Nations was America’s friend. Hollywood never came close to selling the garbage, nor could Hollywood sell the sewerage that TV sold in cop shows, lawyer shows, and doctor shows.

TV did not have to beat the audience over the head with collectivist messages. TV simply wore the audience down with one or two lines of dialogue inserted in fictional plots that were watched by millions night after night, year after year. All of it was paid for with tax deductible advertising dollars.

NOTE: Environmental garbage began to be inserted in dialogue in TV shows after the Soviet Union imploded. Movies made about the environment followed TV’s messages. Today, you cannot escape the global warming fraud, or the people who attach every money-making con to the environment. Hustling reparations for Third World parasites is so ludicrous the Washington Post should be ashamed of itself:

Writing for the Washington Post, Michael B. Gerrard, a legal scholar at Columbia University’s Earth Institute, proposes that we should take in millions upon millions of refugees that will eventually be displaced by climate change. He said, “We ruined your country. Welcome to ours.” Playing on Emma Lazarus’ famous quote, he adds, “Give us your thirsty, your hot, your flooded masses.” Apparently carbon footprint taxes and wealth redistribution are not enough, we must adopt progressive social engineering of the planet.

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And what in hell is an Earth Institute? And why must taxpayers pay for it? And who decided that taxpayers had to pay professors like Gerrard to invent harebrained political schemes to loot the public purse?

Forgive me. I got carried away. Don’t answer the questions. The Washington Post publishing Gerrard is what freedom of the press is all about.

Numbers

I am guessing that the number of American moviegoers settled around 20 percent after TV. I believe that that number is now down to about 10 percent, or approximately 30 million Americans. When it was 20 percent, moviegoers usually saw two or three theater movies a week. Renting movies for viewing on a VCR probably increased the number to four or five movies a week where the percentage remained with DVD rentals.

On the other hand, 90 percent of Americans watched TV at least 5 nights a week including moviegoers and renters. There is no guessing how much the computer cut into both TV and movie theaters. That percentage among younger Americans who do NOT watch TV or movies is anybody’s guess. Older Americans still watch TV and movies, but that audience is dying off.

What does it all mean?

It is illogical to believe the media does not also harbor Communists while every federal bureaucracy, and every one of the armed services, is populated with Communists in high office.

NOTE: Communists and the global government crowd have the same objective; totalitarian government administered by the United Nations. As far as I am concerned they are one and the same.

The number of Communists in the media grew to a much larger percentage than journalism employed in the 1930s. It makes no sense to think that Communists would stop at gaining control of the other important institutions and not focus on gaining control of one of the most powerful tools necessary for transforming and controlling a country.

NOTE: I’ve often said that Communist revolutionaries go after TV transmitters before they go after armories. In previous centuries controlling the children was the first objective of every religion. By the mid-twentieth century it became obvious that controlling what children were taught dropped to second behind controlling the media. If controlling media in today’s world is more important than is controlling the weapons, it follows that children will follow the media in importance.

A substantial number of journalists still work toward advancing Socialism/Communism.

Interestingly, Socialists/Communists blamed, and still blame, robber barons for everything wrong with world, yet they scream the loudest whenever they defend freedom of the press. As for the rest of us don’t fight for press barons, who are themselves robber barons, unless you own a printing press.

Freedom of the press is guaranteed only to those who own one. A. J. Liebling​

Finally, freedom of the press is the one Right I would NOT fight for should it be abolished. Communist countries, and dictatorships of every stripe, control their presses. In short: Worldwide journalism contributes absolutely nothing to individual liberties, limited government, or anything that is worth having. So I see no reason to fight for freedom of a press that is dominated by big government thinkers. More to the point, America’s press would not change the way it operates one bit in a full-blown Communist country.

Here is the link to the article full of facts, names, and dates about journalism’s spies that might interest media watchers:

Journalistic Treachery
By Matthew Vadum
July 1, 2015

Journalistic Treachery​

 

[Tehon]

Lol, didn't you get the memo....... the war with the USSR is over, the KGB was disbanded. At this moment in history you ought to be more concerned with our own government's (CIA) infiltration of our media and the ease with which Americans are manipulated by the corporate state.

 

[Flanders]

Lol, didn't you get the memo....... the war with the USSR is over,

To Tehon: The Soviet Union imploded. Communism is alive and well; most notably in the media, the United Nations, and the environmental movement. And in case you missed it, Communism is thriving in China, North Korea, Vietnam, Cuba, and Latin America to name the most obvious.

the KGB was disbanded.

To Tehon: You might research where the KGB came from, and where it is today. Acronyms is the only difference among the lot of them.

At this moment in history you ought to be more concerned with our own government's (CIA) infiltration of our media and the ease with which Americans are manipulated by the corporate state.

To Tehon: Did you not get the memo? The CIA is prohibited from operating in the US. Provide more than accusations that the CIA is spying on Americans.

If you want to cite the FBI, I must say: I am all for it if they are looking into domestic enemies operating in the media’s Communist bias.

Incidentally, you should be more concerned with the TPP if you oppose corporations so much. I am, including multinational corporations.

 

[Tehon]

To Tehon: Did you not get the memo? The CIA is prohibited from operating in the US. Provide more than accusations that the CIA is spying on Americans.

If you want to cite the FBI, I must say: I am all for it if they are looking into domestic enemies operating in the media’s Communist bias.

Incidentally, you should be more concerned with the TPP if you oppose corporations so much. I am, including multinational corporations.

I am not accusing the CIA of spying, I am accusing them of manipulating the citizens of this country through the use of the media in the form of propaganda. It was called Operation Mockingbird and it is admittedly old but I don't believe that this is not still going on.


As far as TPP is concerned........I absolutely share your concerns. I agree with much of what you post, I just don't share a belief in all of your conclusions.

 

[Flanders]

am not accusing the CIA of spying, I am accusing them of manipulating the citizens of this country through the use of the media in the form of propaganda. It was called Operation Mockingbird and it is admittedly old but I don't believe that this is not still going on.

To Tehon: The entire intelligence community cannot possibly control tens of millions of minds with propaganda and manipulation. Only the media can do that.

NOTE: Big Brother in the novel 1984 controlled the population through television. Most people who read 1984 think of Big Brother as the villain. Few realize that Big Brother would not exist without television in the hands of Communists. Also note that that piece of garbage in the White House is shown in clips on television day and night telling lies not much different than the newspeak Big Brother reported non-stop in 1984. In fact, George Orwell invented the word newspeak.

Basically, media Communists asserted their absolutely authority to manipulate. Nothing angered Communists more than the FBI looking into radio and television. Remember how effective Hollywood, novels, and the media itself turned so-called Witch Hunts into a plus! The strategy has not changed except today the “government” and/or the CIA has to be stopped from interfering in freedom of the press.

Communists got away with effectively ‘manipulating’ the First Amendment to publish, and broadcast, Communist propaganda in different forms. From 1949, to 1987 the Fairness Doctrine was very much a part of Communist control of the media. The phrase ‘liberal basis in the media’ trivialized everything Communists were doing.

More importantly, American Communists used the First Amendment to silence critics. That is one reason I often said that losing freedom of the press is the one Right I would NOT cry for should it be abolished.

NOTE: Media Communists did not have to invent phrases for cover in the 1920s, 1930s and WWII. Covering their tracks only became necessary in the late 1940s —— and up til day.

Finally, conservative critics made the mistake of concentrating on “liberal bias” when they should have openly called it Communist bias.

 

[Tehon]

To Tehon: The entire intelligence community cannot possibly control tens of millions of minds with propaganda and manipulation. Only the media can do that.

Yes, that is why I said they do it through the media. Are you not aware of the CIA's cozy relationship with big business? And the media is after all big business, it's not owned by communists now is it, it's owned by corporations. Corporations that have a vested interest in promoting division in our society and keeping people ignorant to what is actually happening and who is pulling the strings. Hint..........it isn't communists that are pulling the strings.

 

[Flanders]

Yes, that is why I said they do it through the media.

To Tehon: I repeat:

To Tehon: The entire intelligence community cannot possibly control tens of millions of minds with propaganda and manipulation. Only the media can do that.

Are you not aware of the CIA's cozy relationship with big business?

To Tehon: I doubt the relationship you cite exists in this country. Multinational corporations headquartered in foreign countries might do business with the CIA for financial gain, but not for ideology. Bringing the world to a global government is where they agree.

And the media is after all big business, it's not owned by communists now is it, it's owned by corporations.

To Tehon: Media’s “big business” thrives on tax deductible advertising dollars. The income tax pays those taxes. Corporations benefit from the aforementioned advertising dollars. Note that print press survived on advertising revenues before the XVI Amendment and the corrupt tax system was put in place. If anything, corporations would fight tooth and nail to retain the current tax code.

I assume you can see the contradiction between Communism’s form of totalitarian government, and laissez faire capitalism that corporations should advocate for their own survival. They do not, or to be fair, they cannot because of the income tax.

In short: Socialism/Communism is the media’s business model —— not the thinking of corporation executives. If you want to name the major fault of corporations it is the help they get from the government in eliminating competition. Wiping out the competition is a robber baron’s dream come true —— more so under the tax code than it was when T. R. was busting trusts (monopolies). If anything, corporations would fight tooth and nail to retain the tax deduction.

Corporations that have a vested interest in promoting division in our society and keeping people ignorant to what is actually happening and who is pulling the strings.

To Tehon: So do Communists.

Hint..........it isn't communists that are pulling the strings.

To Tehon: Yes they do for one reason. The media is a branch of government. All of the power and influence of corporations cannot stand up to the government; i.e. Communist bias. As far back as the late 1700s it was called the Fourth Estate.

In old days men had the rack. Now they have the Press. That is an improvement certainly. But still it is very bad, and wrong, and demoralizing. Somebody — was it Burke? — called journalism the fourth estate. That was true at the time no doubt. But at the present moment it is the only estate. It has eaten up the other three. The Lords Temporal say nothing, the Lords Spiritual have nothing to say, and the House of Commons has nothing to say and says it. We are dominated by Journalism. Oscar Wilde

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In America the President reigns for four years, and Journalism governs forever and ever. Oscar Wilde​

For the record, years ago I dubbed television the Fifth Estate.

 

[Flanders]

conservative critics made the mistake of concentrating on “liberal bias” when they should have openly called it Communist bias.

I am still surprised by a politician who is surprised by Media Communists:

“The liberal media is once again showing that they will hide facts and mislead readers as long as it fits their narrative,” she told Foxnews.com.​

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[Flanders]

Well-known facts about journalism’s long love affair with Socialism/Communism began in earnest in the early 1930s:

UPDATE​

March 31, 2016
Historian: AP collaborated with the Nazis in 1930's
By Rick Moran

Blog: Historian: AP collaborated with the Nazis in 1930's