Word: propagandas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Berlin. The Russians, who wanted something to show for backing off farther from Khrushchev's Berlin ultimatum (which expired uneventfully on the day of Dulles' funeral), were haggling for token concessions from the West. Sample: a promise from the West to diminish its intelligence and propaganda operations in West Berlin. The Western ministers indicated their willingness to make some such concessions...
...Tweedledum and Tweedledee of Soviet journalism-Izvestia (Information), the official daily of the government, and Pravda (Truth), the official daily of the Communist Party-are so packed with pap and propaganda that a few editors have discreetly hinted recently that the two dailies are incredible bores (TIME, June 1). Last week brought a sign that the government had at last decided to print some news that is fit to be read. Named as the new managing editor of Izvestia: round-cheeked Aleksei I. Adzhubei, garrulous and gregarious as his father-in-law, who happens to be Premier Nikita S. Khrushchev...
...Soviet press as a whole. Each day, it spews 57 million copies of 7,686 papers across the land. Identical in size-18½ in. by 23½ in., four to six pages-all are of such a numbing editorial sameness that E. A. Lazebnik, deputy director of propaganda for the party Central Committee in the Ukraine, was moved in 1956 to complain with singular bluntness: "If one were to conceal the names of newspapers, it would be almost impossible to tell which is which...
What passes for news is a massive daily dose of party propaganda, dished out dully: party directives and pep talks, party speeches, party promotion lists, party comings and goings, party polemic and praise. Since Stalin's death, the propaganda dose has been sweetened somewhat in a calculated effort to liberalize the press-and to keep the reader swallowing the party pill. With full official sanction, newspapers began criticizing each other: "Soviet newspapers," wrote Pravda in a recent and scathing Press Day editorial, "are insipid, lifeless, deadly dull and difficult to read." Komsomolskaya Pravda, the youth paper, erupted...
...chain was forged in the turn-of-the-century war of the copper kings, when the company used its newspapers as ironfisted, copperplated propaganda sheets in its successful fight for supremacy. In the '20s, when the company began to fret that its papers were furthering its image as a monopolist, it toned them down, tried to shape the news more by selecting than slanting or denouncing. Events harmful to Anaconda were either ignored or downplayed ; the papers even began to avoid all local controversies...