Pravda, which means “truth” in Russian, began publication on May 5th, 1912, the anniversary of Karl Marx's birthday. The origins of this publication date back to 1903, and its founder was a wealthy Russian businessman named V.A Kozhenikov. From its seedling days in 1903, the publication was harassed and repeatedly shuttered due to its evolving anti-Czar political content.
Based upon its Anti-Czar, Pro-Soviet Revolutionary content, and advocacy, it was allowed to reopen after the communist October Revolution.
In March of 2018, it became the official mouthpiece of the Soviet Government and lasted through the downfall of the Soviet Union in 1991.
For 73 years Pravda was the official conduit through which Soviet Policy was conveyed to the Soviet masses. Its word and pronouncements were to be officially believed and obeyed. There was no independent working press, meaningful voice of opposition or any other independent view.
The foundation of a free society requires a free and independent press which has often been referred to as the "Fourth Estate". The term “Press” originated from a time where the only method for the mass dissemination of information was the printing press. (see The Printing Press, Benjamin Franklin, and The Golden Aches) The term now embraces the totality of all media, including both print and electronic.
Those who worked the vineyards of that industry were called “journalists”. True journalists are independent seekers of truth. They follow the story and seek out the facts, regardless of where they may lead, or who they may impact. With few exceptions, those people don't exist anymore in America. They have been replaced with hairsprayed empty suits reading and writing an obsequious script.
Meet American Pravda Inc and its unofficial subsidiaries: CNN, CNBC, ABC, NBC Facebook, Twitter, etc...
Pravda was the official, de jure press and propaganda arm of the Soviet Government. In Today’s America, we have a Media Industrial Complex that is the unofficial propaganda machine of the Democratic Party and The Democrat Industrial Complex. It would be almost impossible to find a single significant media outlet in America whose "reporting" and "journalism" failed to support, report, slant truth, or lie overtly to promote the Official Democratic Progressive Agenda. Although the Press is not officially an arm of the Democrat Party, in reality, it is.
Those who deny this, will, of course, cite the usual suspects who claim them to be viable (but despised by them) i.e. Fox News, Breitbart, Newsmax, and perhaps a couple of others. It’s true that Fox runs circles around its competitors in both viewership and ratings. But in the competition for meaningful influence over the American heart and mind, Conservative media are nothing more than a blip on the radar screen. They are neither accessed nor accessible in the American workplace, its universities, or generally in the public way.
The American Media Industrial Complex is comprised of the vast, disaggregated totality of all three major TV networks, virtually all Social Media, The New York Times (which is still laughably referred to as "The Newspaper of Record"), and every other media messenger that is institutionally relied upon and widely quoted for news and information.
The messengers whom this media colossus employ are collectively referred to as journalists. Just like the famed ventriloquist dummy, Charlie McCarthy, when they are animated, too many of us think that they are real, but they are not. They exist solely and exclusively to indoctrinate their viewers, readers, and audience with the Official Party line.
A true "working press" wouldn't allow for the current occupant of the White House to ignore the manifest conflicts of interest of his son in his dealings with China.
They would be clearly concerned about the peril that such a cozy and corrupt connection to the President of the United States poses to our national security.
A Laptop with damning evidence? Who cares, we want Joe elected, this might complicate things.
Where is our "Press” in its coverage of the recent Cuban dissidents? Somehow they support the BLM and AOC party line that the Cuban people are suffering not because of the Cuban Communist Regime, but the US Embargo. They shamefully support and propagate hateful propaganda towards Israel, America’s closest ally, while enthusiastically supporting her enemies.
There are no real press conferences. There is no longer even a cosmetic attempt by The American Media Industrial Complex in seeking the truth when it conflicts with the Agenda of the "Progressive” Democrat Agenda. Even if they wanted to, they couldn't.
The American Pravda is constrained by their required obeisance to Big Tech, Big Business, and China. They are all inextricably linked to the indoctrination of America with the programs and diktats of the Democrat Industrial Complex.
On June 4, 1989, during a Chinese military parade in Tiananmen Square, a group of protestors stepped in front of an advancing column of tanks without warning or hesitation. The tanks stayed their course and ran the protestors over, crushing them to death. At the time, those photos became the symbol of the world of Chinese savagery. Try finding them today online... They are scrubbed from Google, Facebook, and every other significant Social Media Platform temporarily each year on the date of the Tiananmen Square Anniversary… China, You’ve come a long way baby!
Those who have been arrogated the professional title of "journalist" now follow in the tradition of Joseph Stalin who stated, "You find me the man, I'll find you the crime".
To The American Pravda, if it's Trump, it's a crime, and if it's a member of their tribe or protected class, there is no story, or it becomes "disinformation" or "misinformation”.
The New York Times during their less dishonest period would bury important front-page stories that were distasteful to them on page 17 or so… Now, there is no story, regardless of the impact on our nation.
The American Pravda, through its Media Industrial Complex, has now supplanted the working Free Press in America. Our Nation cannot function and will not survive as a true Republic without a working Free Press.
The Soviet Union imposed their Pravda on their people from the top down.
In America, Big Tech, Big Business, and China were more sophisticated in their approach to following their American Pravda. They have dulled our brains into believing that indoctrination and "journalism" are one and the same.
Now, what can you do? First, make certain that you remain independent in your thinking and seek out as many alternative sources of information that you can. In failing to do so, we will drown in the propaganda of The American Pravda and that is not The American Way… Truth is.
-Emes