If the communist newspaper was Pravada, what was the tv media?

[Racenut20]

[billbuckhead]

1. CNN?

Communist New Network?

[kestrel91316]

2. Izvestia??

[Nevernose]

3. Excluding Fox?

[Lithos]

4. Gostelradio

An acronym for the agency that handled the TV and radio broadcasting.
Pravda and Isvestia were newspapers.

Russian News was through the TASS and Novosti bureaus which were the official organs which in turn disseminated their material to Gostelradio and the newspapers as well as foreign media.

Censorship was handled through another agency called Glavlit.

Other groups were Goskino (Movies) and Goskomizdat (Books)

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[Lancer]

5. Lithos is right;

Pravda translates to "truth," Izvestia to "news." The old Cold War joke in the US used to be that "In Pravda there is no Izvestia, and in Izvestia there is no Pravda."

I don't know of a name that translates into English for the old state-run TV station, but their nightly "news" broadcast was called "Vremya," which means "time."

[Lithos]

6. Thanks for the joke

I wanted to include it, but I always phrase it wrong.

And yes, Vremya was the actual name of the TV news show.

There was another joke that I can't remember correctly that said something like there were four channels of Soviet TV, three broadcast the same political thing, the fourth was of a man telling you to turn back to one of the other three channels.

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[bif]

7. It's acually Pravda

In the Soviet Union they used to use pieces of the paper to wipe their butts. And since Pravda translates as "truth" the old joke was that "Every morning we wipe our asses with the truth".