American/Russian Vladimir Posner on the State of Journalism

http://www.counterpunch.org/2017/05/17/americanrussian-vladimir-posner-on-the-state-of-journalism/
Date Written:  2017-05-17
Publisher:  CounterPunch
Year Published:  2017
Resource Type:  Article
Cx Number:  CX20747

A Russian journalist's views on the state of journalism.

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Vladimir Posner, who spent his youth in the United States, France, and the Soviet Union, and who cohosted a show with Phil Donahue on U.S. television for years, met with a group of visitors to Moscow from the U.S. on Monday, offering his well-informed views on a range of media-related topics.

Posner said that for years he worked on Soviet propaganda aimed at the United States. The first blow to his full belief in the rectitude of the USSR came, he said, with the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968. He eventually concluded that he was not telling the truth, that by telling only good things he was telling half the truth, which is a falsehood. He quit the job and he quit the Communist Party