Monday, January 24, 2005

'Washington today feels like Moscow'


A spin cycle out of control | csmonitor.com
Washington these days feels a little like Moscow in Soviet times when the government routinely dispensed information to the public and the public routinely didn't believe it. The two main newspapers were the Communist Party organ, Pravda, (Truth) and the Soviet government organ, Izvestiya (News). People used to say, "There is no Izvestiya in Pravda and no Pravda in Izvestiya."
Today I feel the same way about our own Pravda on the Hudson and the Izvestiya in D.C., all the news on the front pages is written from the corporate or GOP viewpoints.

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