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Love this, but since the book has an anti-Soviet sentiment, I don't think we could generalize this quote. In USSR you would read only what you should and you di
by AnatMl2 9y ago
Love this, but since the book has an anti-Soviet sentiment, I don't think we could generalize this quote. In USSR you would read only what you should and you didn't really have a choice. Freedom of press was something impossible to imagine.
I cannot say that everything what we read, or choose to read today is worth reading but there is a good press, which is at times difficult to find, but you will never get to it if you don't filter.
- radicalbyte 9y agoThe irony is that at the limits of capitalism you find the same thing as soviet communism. Worthless news.
- vixen99 9y agoReplace 'capitalism' or 'soviet communism' with X (= just about any current topic) and you'll likely get the same. Is that ironic?
- qaq 9y agoThe major US news outlets deteriorated to the point of being close to USSR level of bias and propaganda.
- notfromhere 9y agoNo they're not. If you actually believe this, no one can help you.
- qaq 9y agoI see little difference CNN has clear political angle so does FOX which is basically directed by owners interests. That's a very short through to the USSR old times. If I ever turn on either one I feel that I am back to USSR. (I lived in US 1995-2004) and came back to US in 2015 the difference is very stark I would imaging when it was happening gradually it would be less noticeable vs going from 2000 +/- version to today. In USSR you had a small group of people (Politburo) controlling among other things all the media. If you take the number of people in US exerting major influence on media through ownership it's pretty much smaller number than even members of Politburo.
- notfromhere 9y agoI also grew up in the USSR; comparing CNN to Pravda is still stupid.