Word: sovietism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Soviet forces crushed a workers' uprising...
...Again in 1984, Rather narrated a segment claiming to depict 4,000 Afghans fleeing their villages near Kabul out of fear of Soviet attacks. Etabari told the Post that the film was shot miles away at the Afghan-Pakistani border...
...showed rebels stalking government guards and blowing up a mine. The Post says Etabari claims the footage was faked by Hoover at a camp in Pakistan. The Post adds that CBS in 1987 aired a tape of an exploding red toy and described it as a bomb planted by Soviet soldiers. An unidentified BBC producer called the "bomb" a phony device made for Hoover. Whatever the truth of these allegations, they are a reminder that skepticism is an editor's best -- and perhaps most reliable -- friend...
...creations, of course, are created equal. ABC's World News Tonight last July aired a dramatization of alleged spy Felix Bloch passing a briefcase to a Soviet agent. The scene, visually enhanced to look like the real thing but inadvertently not labeled a simulation, was a mistake because it was misleading: it made an event that is alleged to have taken place appear to be a recorded fact. ABC apologized for not identifying the scene properly, and network newscasts have since steered clear of simulations...
...autumn session of the Supreme Soviet was only 45 minutes old when President Mikhail Gorbachev smiled at the 470 Deputies and pointed with pride to giant projection screens suspended at both ends of the Kremlin hall. "Let's try out the new machine," he suggested, referring to the electronic voting system installed during the summer recess. He gave the signal, and the sound of clicking filled the hall. Hundreds of faces turned to the screens and saw . . . nothing...