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Korry said The New York Times and The Washington Post, which he compared to government organs like the Russian newspaper Pravda, had cooperated in the cover-up by not reporting information which he supplied to them...
...made my getaway. Up the stairs past the sleeping boneless chicken, past a bowl of goldfish knitting woolen sweaters, past a lobster wearing a bib that said "Kosher," and out into the yard, where I hid in six-foot tall blades of grass which were reading copies of Pravda. I made it to my car, but to my chagrin, it was being eaten--by the very dog whose invitation to whist I had foolishly declined earlier in the afternoon...
Earlier in the week, as a sign of the Kremlin's displeasure with Carter's human rights stand, Pravda pointed to a plenitude of starving children, black ghettos, bugging and police surveillance in the U.S. and to other "brazen violations of the rights of American citizens." At the same time, the Soviets sought to blame Washington's criticisms on a Jewish conspiracy. Writing for Tass, Political Commentator Yuri Kornikov charged that "Zionist organizations" in the U.S. were more and more a major source of "anti-Soviet noise about the question of civil liberties in the U.S.S.R...
...huddle in chains during the 1950s. During that period, a morning newspaper might buy its afternoon rival to consolidate costs, creating monopoly, or what A. J. Liebling called "profitable stagnation." The news that gets reported may not be all that's fit to print; sometimes it may be, like Pravda, what the monopolist decides is news...
...story was decidedly downplayed: ten lines on the back page of Pravda, under the innocuous headline ANNOUNCEMENT. But the news was dramatic: a TU-104 turbojet of Aeroflot, the Soviet state airline, crashed last week after taking off from Moscow's Sheremetyevo airport on a flight to Leningrad. Readers did not learn how many people died (Western estimates range from 52 to 72), nor were they told that it was the fifth major Aeroflot crash this year. Still, the announcement was rare confirmation that the world's largest, least-known airline is far from perfect...