Well, about it maybe, and certainly not all. Here's a summary of malfeasance on the part of the press over the last year, and yes, I remember seeing several of those stories covered in varying degrees of completeness in assorted places, just almost never in newsprint.
All too often, I mention a week-old news item to the wife and find out she's not heard a word of it as she gets her news from the TV for the most part.
In the coming year we'll probably be treated to many examples of USSR-era Russian humor as the country becomes more and more like the Socialist utopia that the cowboy Reagan pitilessly destroyed just as all was about to come to fruition. Paraphrasing the Daily Worker may well become more common as well, no?
So as you peruse the local fish wrap, remember this Soviet-era wisdom: "There is no Truth in Pravda, and there is no News in Izvestia.
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