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Tl;dr Mainstream media caught outright lying and completely distorting facts to fit a narrative, we only found out because social media exists and gives a voice to people who were actually there and know the facts. I don't believe they only started doing this when the Internet came along.
If you've not followed it, Owen Jones summarises what we know here:
I don't claim to be an expert on Pravda but would welcome any evidence you have of anything they did that was this dishonest.
Well neither am I, but Pravda was the official state media of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1920-1990 or thereabouts. Just for the period prior to 1953, consider how they reported on the 800k executions, 1.7m deaths in the Gulags, or the 6m or so in the famine of the 1930s?
Comparing a bit of lazy reporting / politically biased spin about football violence seems jejune at best. Call it out for what it is, there's plenty of ammunition to criticize western institutions, media and otherwise, without making specious parallels.
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We didn't have to wait long for a good example. The rioting by Israeli football fans in Amsterdam.
Tl;dr Mainstream media caught outright lying and completely distorting facts to fit a narrative, we only found out because social media exists and gives a voice to people who were actually there and know the facts. I don't believe they only started doing this when the Internet came along.
If you've not followed it, Owen Jones summarises what we know here:
https://x.com/owenjonesjourno/status/1855368416565383621?t=MpN5Kv_K_QIdoxF1ohfO6w&s=19
I don't claim to be an expert on Pravda but would welcome any evidence you have of anything they did that was this dishonest.