Thread: Liberal Media ‘Whitewashed’ Evils of Communism, New Stud

Liberal Media ‘Whitewashed’ Evils of Communism, New Study Documents

Thursday, November 12, 2009
By Michael W. Chapman, Managing Editor
several videos at the link


“Better Off Red? Twenty Years After the Fall of the Berlin Wall, Recalling the Liberal Media’s Blindness to the Evil of Communism," a report published by the Media Research Center

(CNSNews.com) – Twenty years ago this week, the Berlin Wall fell, opening a door to freedom for millions of East Germans who had lived under communism for nearly 50 years. But as a new report documents, much of the major U.S. media coverage of the Berlin Wall, and the subsequent downfall of Soviet communism, failed to accurately report the brutal nature of communism and often tipped in favor of the oppressors.

“Communism was a blight on humanity for much of the 20th century. Even Hitler's Holocaust pales next to the 100 million people killed by communist dictators in Europe, Asia and Latin America. Yet our report shows many in the liberal media had a blind spot to this evil ideology,â€

What communism did to the population was make them dependent on it with no reason to strive for anything better. It got so bad the Soviet regimes had to pay the workers a bonus for just showing up to work. The populace stole everything they could from the workplaces, just as they had seen the government takes their homes, lands and businesses with the drive for nationalization. The black market was alive and well, and reading a magazine on a flight to Finland, the cover story in 1996 was how to deal with the Russian mafia when opening a business in Russia. Forty percent of businesses were mafia owned.