AMERICA’S “TASS” AND “PRAVDA” – by CHARLES CURTMAN – CHARLES CURTMAN | Substack

AMERICA’S “TASS” AND “PRAVDA”

“Think of the press as a great keyboard on which the government can play.”—Joseph Goebbels

CHARLES CURTMAN

Mar 28, 2026

TASS was the official news agency of the former communist Soviet Union from 1925 to the fall of the USSR in 1991. It controlled all Soviet radio television broadcasting and newspapers such as Pravda. All of these were mouthpieces for soviet-communist ideology, propaganda and party policy.

The Daily Worker in 1924 became the official mouthpiece in America for soviet-communist ideology, propaganda and party policy. Since renamed, its propagandizing work continues officially as the People’s World.

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Unofficially (for now at least) America’s mainstream, legacy news media—ABC, NBC, CBS, MSNBC, etc., the New York Times and almost every major newspaper—is the functional equivalent of what TASS and Pravda were in the USSR, and what the Daily Worker continues to be in the United States.

Our mainstream media has been gradually, but successfully and almost entirely, highjacked by communists ideologues. What poses as mainstream “news” outlets in America has degenerated and been retooled into nothing less than a complicit and willing “mouthpiece” for the “Democrat”/Communist Party and the rest of the communist Left in America. This is apparent to anyone with ears, eyes and a brain that works.

Even FOX has proven (especially during the first Trump presidency) that it cannot be trusted to be truthful. The legacy, mainstream media news should be taken seriously only in the sense that it is as much an enemy to our Republic and individual freedom as anything could be.

Plenty of good, reliable sources for news and political and social commentary—mostly online—is available and worth ferreting out and using. But, people need to understand and accept the fact that mainstream, legacy “news” outlets are part and parcel of the “domestic enemy” which now threatens our freedom, and with which we must contend.

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