The New York Times had no problem with Moscow's strategy in the 1920s, it sees no problem with surrendering to the modernized version today. Ah! Consistency.
The New York Times Strikes Again -- Says Russian Propaganda War 'May Be Impossible To Stop'
The New York Times is nothing if not consistent. The so-called "newspaper of record" has spent decades giving support to the propaganda efforts of Moscow and its allies beginning with the advent of the Soviet Union. In the 1920s and early 30s the New York Times Moscow correspondent, Walter Duranty, promoted pro-Soviet propaganda, although he knew the Communist Party line was false. Closer to home, in the late 1950s and early 1960s, the New York Times gave a platform for Herbert Matthews' pro-Castro lies. The New York Times support of the Party line continued throughout the Cold War. With the rise of Putin's neo-Soviet Russia, the New York Times again follows the Moscow line, and in a recent article declares any struggle against Moscow's latest propaganda offensive to be an all but lost cause.
For Moscow's part, the stated purpose of its latest and glitzy manipulation of broadcast media and use of social media is to break "the Anglo-Saxon global information streams."
