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25 Years After the Berlin Wall, How the News Media Covered Communism

Looking back at journalism’s track record on communism, one finds a press that was too willing to act as a mouthpiece for the world’s worst dictatorships, and too accepting of the perverse claim ...
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Boy, Revenge Escalated Quickly

Revenge goes from 0-60 in no time flat.
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NBC's Brokaw: U.S. Anti-Communism Efforts During Cold War A 'National Obsession'

During NBC's Saturday coverage of the Winter Olympics, former NBC Nightly News anchor Tom Brokaw spun the United States' worldwide campaign against communism during the Cold War: "In Korea, ...
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NBC Glorifies Russia's Soviet Past as 'One of Modern History's Pivotal Experiments'

NBC whitewashed Russia's communist legacy in the lead segment of its Friday broadcast of the opening ceremonies of the Winter Olympics in Sochi. Game of Thrones actor Peter Dinklage narrated the ...
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‘Conservative’ Journalist on Reagan: ‘I Hope the Bastard Bleeds to Death on the Operating Table’

KGB operatives infiltrated conservative media? Wednesday night’s episode of FX’s The Americans imagines that in 1981 a conservative magazine employed a journalist who was really a KGB mole. On ...
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FX’s ‘The Americans’ Imagines Moment When Soviets Learned of Reagan’s Plan to Deploy SDI

Last week’s second episode of The Americans (the third episode ran last night, February 13, on FX), dramatically ended with a scene showing the horror realized by KGB operatives at the Soviet ...
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Murdoch's KGB-Friendly Series

FX’s “The Americans” will be told from the Soviet perspective: “We’re making them the sympathetic characters. I’d go so far as to say they’re the heroes.”
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Did Gorbachev Really 'Refuse to Shoot to Preserve His Costly Empire'? 18 Killed in Lithuania, Latvia

Former Times executive editor Max Frankel: "Finally, when Mikhail Gorbachev refused to shoot to preserve his costly empire, the curtain collapsed altogether and dragged down the Soviet center ...
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CBS Grants Oliver Stone 8-Minute Platform to Spout Far Left, Blame-America-First Ramblings

During a eight minute interview, Tuesday's CBS This Morning helped left-wing radical Oliver Stone promote his latest project - a revisionist documentary and book on World War II and the beginning ...

Rub Your Eyes: Praise for Ronald Reagan in NYT Local Story on GOP Voting by Soviet Immigrants

Praise for Ronald Reagan's anti-Communism from...the local section of the New York Times? "Another inspiration for [Soviet immigrants'] conservatism, scholars and political professionals say, is ...
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