The Left’s Soft Spot For Communist Propaganda Is Nothing New

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The Left’s Soft Spot For Communist Propaganda Is Nothing New

The MSM has a long tradition of falling (or worse) for Communist propaganda.
 
By David Harsanyi   
February 13, 2018
 
No, not every Western journalist fell for North Korean propaganda efforts at the Pyeongchang Olympics, though there were more than plenty. Some of it, no doubt, is driven by animosity for Donald Trump. Many people live a reactive existence that demands they show admiration for anyone perceived as standing in opposition to the president. The number of liberals asking “are we any better?” than North Korea on social media is horrifying, but, at this point, predictable.

But we also shouldn’t act as if falling for Communism disinformation is something new or rare. The Left, and really we have no choice but to treat most big media outlets as functionaries of the Left, has a long tradition of falling (or worse) for Communist propaganda — from Stalin to the Vietcong to Castro to Sandinistas to Hugo Chavez to fetching DPRK henchwomen.

Most famously there was the Pulitzer-Prize winning Walter Duranty, The New York Times Moscow correspondent whose dispatches covered up Stalin’s worst abominations during the 1930s. It should be remembered that many on the Left only turned away from the Soviet strongman when he allied himself with Hitler. By that time, the Soviets, who gained widespread popularity on the American left, had perpetrated their own Holocaust. To this day, the Pulitzer board won’t revoke Duranty’s prize, finding that “there was not clear and convincing evidence of deliberate deception.”

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http://thefederalist.com/2018/02/13/lefts-soft-spot-for-communist-propaganda-is-nothing-new/

[truth_seeker]

At the end of the Cold War, breakup of USSR, falling of the Berlin Wall the West briefly hoped for and did get good relations with the Olde Eastern Europe Bloc.;

Poland, E. Germany, Czech R., Slovakia, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, the Baltics, etc.

I personally do not understand what Russia hopes to achieve by hostile relations with us. I admit being naïve.