I was searching the internet, researching a blog post I had in mind about the Duke Business School cheating scandal, when I stumbled onto the online version of the Russian newspaper Pravda (in English). For those who may not remember, it used to be the mouthpiece of the Communist Party.
Here’s a link to the front page. I have to say I was surprised at what I found there. At the time of this writing, the following headlines all appear on the front page:
“Sex museums offer a wide variety of quirky exhibits”
“Attitudes to (sic) adultery vary in many countries of the world”
“Condoleeza Rice’s sexual worries in the White House”
“Future technologies may destroy sex”
“Celebrities who started as cheerleaders”
“Ten most beautiful Chinese actresses”
“Sex doll for dogs protects your legs from hump attack”
“Emergency workers use vaseline to help naked man glued by robbers”
Is this what qualifies as news in Russia? Or is this what the Russians think Americans like to read about? If it’s the latter, it worked on me. Forget about Marginal Revolution; my new source of insightful commentary is Pravda.
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Well well, that’s pretty judgemental now isn’t it! Pravda also invests in top notch investigative journalism! Just have a look at this high class scoop about how the upper ventral region of a mammals torso is portrayed in literature and the movies. -> http://english.pravda.ru/society/stories/07-05-2007/91047-breasts_madia-0
(actually that website is utterly unrelated to the original Pravda that was closed down in 1991. The paper mentioned in your Britannica link has a website at http://www.gazeta-pravda.ru/)
Well well, that’s pretty judgemental now isn’t it! Pravda also invests in top notch investigative journalism! Just have a look at this high class scoop about how the upper ventral region of a mammals torso is portrayed in literature and the movies. -> http://english.pravda.ru/society/stories/07-05-2007/91047-breasts_madia-0
(actually that website is utterly unrelated to the original Pravda that was closed down in 1991. The paper mentioned in your Britannica link has a website at http://www.gazeta-pravda.ru/)
I would guess it’s the ‘westernization’ of the media, namely that the media’s essence is to sell papers rather than inform civil society
I would guess it’s the ‘westernization’ of the media, namely that the media’s essence is to sell papers rather than inform civil society
As correctly pointed out by Pepijn, this site has nothing in common with “Pravda” the Soviet-time newspaper.
By the way, “Pravda” is still being published in Russia, and it is still a communist, or at least, extreme left newspaper.
As correctly pointed out by Pepijn, this site has nothing in common with “Pravda” the Soviet-time newspaper.
By the way, “Pravda” is still being published in Russia, and it is still a communist, or at least, extreme left newspaper.
“The US Secretary of State released a coarse anti-Russian statement. This is because she is a single woman who has no children[.]”
““Condoleezza Rice is a very cruel, offended woman who lacks men’s attention. She needs to be taken to a company of soldiers and it would be just fine,” Russian politician Vladimir Zhirinovsky believes[.]”
As terrible as Miss Rice has been in the Secretary of State role, Yikes!
“The US Secretary of State released a coarse anti-Russian statement. This is because she is a single woman who has no children[.]”
“”Condoleezza Rice is a very cruel, offended woman who lacks men’s attention. She needs to be taken to a company of soldiers and it would be just fine,” Russian politician Vladimir Zhirinovsky believes[.]”
As terrible as Miss Rice has been in the Secretary of State role, Yikes!