August 17, 2025
The Western media have morphed completely into being Pravda
By Andrea Widburg
“In the Soviet Union, there is no truth in Pravda and no news in Izvestia.” Readers of a certain age recognize that old joke, which played on the fact that the names of those two Soviet newspapers, when translated into English, meant “truth” and “news” respectively. Or, as the old exchange went: “How can you tell when a Soviet official is lying?” “When his lips move—or when you read Pravda.” Everyone understood that nothing in those party organs was believable.
The same is true for today’s leftist-controlled media, both at home and abroad. And today, I have two examples of the agendas that are pro-Islamic and, in the second case, deeply antisemitic. In each case, a misleading headline creates a powerful narrative image that his countered only if readers bother to scroll deep into the reports on the story.
Here is the headline from People magazine, a national publication: “Tenn. Man Charged with Raping Unconscious Woman In Front of Church — Just Before She Died”.
That the article leads with the phrase “Tenn. Man” in 20-point font in the headline will inevitably leave people thinking that the man charged with the crime, which involved raping a woman who had passed out from drugs, looked like one of these guys, all of whom are stereotypical “Tennessee Men”:
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2025/08/the_western_media_have_morphed_completely_into_being_pravda.html
