In USSR, Pravda always used the subtitle "Organ of the Central Committee of the CPSU" in its title header. So, you could probably rephrase this as "I wish mode

In USSR, Pravda always used the subtitle "Organ of the Central Committee of the CPSU" in its title header. So, you could probably rephrase this as "I wish modern day western press was as transparent as Soviet press", without being too much of a hyperbole.