...According to Aodh de Blácam in "Secrets of Propaganda" (1937) "Whoever or whatever supplies the flow of news to English-using newspapers, it must be a small group. ..It is obvious too that this control of news is not done by minds akin to ours...Therefore we depend on our international news from a small, anonymous group resident we know not where. We live under as strictly controlled news as residents of Communist Russia. The only difference between us and the Russians is the Russians know Stalin controls the news...but we muddle along under a dictatorship we cannot identify. We call ourselves free because we cannot see our master."
Is this accurate in 1937?
Is this accurate now and in 1937?
Hi OP, please remove the "now" from this question : per this subreddit's 20-year rule, current affairs are off-limits here. I've temporarily removed this post; reply here or to mod mail when it's been edited out , and we'll approve.
Also, can you clarify the question: the title implies that the subject is state-controlled media in the Soviet Union under Stalin, but the quote is about media elsewhere. So which are you asking about?
Thanks