Scott Whitlock complains in a Sept. 19 Media Research Center item that “The three networks on Thursday morning allowed a scant 65 seconds to Senator John McCain’s “blistering” op-ed published in the communist newspaper Pravda, featuring a call for freedom and tolerance in Russia.”
Unfortunately for Whitlock and McCain, that’s not what Pravda is these days. Dave Weigel explains:
Pravda, the Communist Party organ, was shut down briefly during the fall of Communism but now exists as a paper that publishes in a vastly reduced form. Pravda.ru is a spinoff founded by journalists who used to work for the paper, and it’s basically Russia’s version of World Net Daily.
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So, as Hudson points out, Roberts is a 9/11 Truther who writes for Pravda.ru because it’s got a famous name, and who else is going to run him? Pravda’s editorial board, recently, has been assuring readers that the evidence of Syrian chemical weapons use is fake.And so on like this — click around and you pine for the glory days of Communist news. It’s not a government site, but a sadder private venture that feeds off conspiracy theories about Americans.
We’ve previously caught various corners of the ConWeb endorsing a Pravda article by 1 9/11 truther who claims the world is about to enter another Ice Age. If it was ever a reputable publication in the days of Soviet Communism, it certainly isn’t now.