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VDH-'How the ‘Pravda-Like’ Big Mainstream Media Distorts the News'
Hanson-'On mainstream papers, left-wing websites, NPR, PBS, CBS, MSNBC. It's like Democratic operatives issue a Pravda like order'
The award-winning docu-drama "Shadows of Liberty" featured numbers of individuals in the media that are often from the political left. Victor Davis Hanson, in the video for the Daily Signal, is from the political right. Both have described a very similar process, which left-leaning Edward Herman and Noam Chomsky have described in their book, Manufacturing Consent. One of the takeaways from this is that from both the left and the right there are those who say similar points to what Hanson has made below.
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How the ‘Pravda-Like’ Press Distorts the News
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Victor Davis Hanson | June 01, 2025
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Hello, this is Victor Davis Hanson for The Daily Signal. So much has been said about the media, the mainstream media, the legacy media. There’s not really much to add because we all know that it’s not really a disinterested media but it’s kind of a Pravda-like propaganda organ. I’ll give you a few examples.
More recently, when Cyril Ramaphosa came to the White House, the president of South Africa, did you see the word “ambush”? It was in every mainstream paper, every left-wing website, every radio—NPR, PBS, CBS, MSNBC. It’s like the Democratic operatives issue a Pravda-like order and then these mindless people just say, “Okay, today’s talking points are…”
He met President Donald Trump. He wasn’t really surprised that Trump was going to confront him because he bragged that he was gonna confront Trump. There was no secret place. It wasn’t a sudden, unexpected attack from a secret place—the definition of an ambush. Yet, it was ”ambush,” “ambush,” “ambush,” “ambush.”
And when some questions arose about the visit, it was just typical. The White House press secretary, Karoline Leavitt, fielded a question from an NBC journalist. She was very angry because Donald Trump mentioned to President Ramaphosa, “See this picture of a thousand graves.” She said, “Well, he was lying. There weren’t graves.” And the press secretary replied back, “They were commemorations.” Each one of those crosses represents a dead South African who was murdered by virtue of his race. And she said, “Yes, but it’s not…”
So what they were arguing about—NBC—was semantics that Trump had improperly—and he had improperly—confused “grave” with “cenotaph,” a cenotaph. That’s “kenos” in Greek, meaning “empty.”
So, these crosses were not on top of a dead person but they represented a dead person. But NBC was so fixated on embarrassing the president that they didn’t even want to discuss the fact that there were a thousand crosses and they did represent individual lives destroyed because of their race. But she just wanted to make the point that you could nullify all of that and excuse it by saying they were not graves but cenotaphs. And there you have it.
So lately, we see it everywhere. And we had the tragic killing of Yaron Lischinsky and his fiancee, Sarah Milgrim, the two Jewish diplomatic workers in Washington. And what was interesting about it—I’ve been reading the mainstream media accounts. So, Elias Rodriguez goes in there, shoots—empties a gun—21 times, murders this wonderful couple, and then he yells, “Free Palestine.”
And they just can’t resist. They have the description of the shooting. They mention who he was. They don’t mention the left-wing groups that he worked with or the funding that came from places like the MacArthur Foundation that funded groups that he used to work for. Or they don’t mention the fact that his father attended Congress as a guest of a Democratic congressman.
But they do do this: About eight, usually about eight paragraphs down, they say, “And tensions rose because of the Israeli assault on Gaza and the thousands of deaths.” In other words, they’re trying to contextualize the murder by saying that this person was driven to it in the manner, perhaps, like Luigi Mangione, who shot the UnitedHealthcare executive. In other words, there’s always a contextualization.
And when you start to add all of this stuff up, it all is in an atmosphere of Jake Tapper co-authoring this “Original Sin” book when he was one of the principle people who promulgated the idea that former President Joe Biden was completely fit and anybody who questioned it—Lara Trump was a good example—he demonized and tried to destroy on national TV. Now he’s gonna make millions saying, “I didn’t do it. They did.”
And it’s an indictment of the Biden circle, who knew that he was cognitively challenged. We knew it. I shouldn’t even say they knew. Everybody knew it. But they were prevented from commenting or they were demonized if they did comment by the media and by the Biden team.
And this is on top of the fact that the media never even looked at the released records. They never even asked a question—as they did of Donald Trump’s cognitive abilities. They never said, “Did he have a PSA test?” Trump, it’s on his medical records. Former President Barack Obama did. They didn’t ask any of these things.
And now they’re trying to say, “We were hoodwinked.” No, you weren’t hoodwinked. You were operating in the same fashion you did to promulgate the Russian collusion lie that you never apologized for, the laptop disinformation lie that you’ve never apologized for, the 51 intelligence authorities that you never apologized for, the partnering of the FBI with social media to censor the news before the 2020 election that you never talked about.
This is a pattern. And it won’t stop with this. And the result is you wonder why, whether when you look at liberal polls or liberal media, nobody has any confidence anymore, nobody trusts you.
Don’t you understand that when you say, “Ambush,” “ambush,” “ambush,” “ambush,” or you ask questions that don’t even get to the point, just a matter of semantics, we know what you’re doing? You’re trying to gin up momentum, enthusiasm for a cause, a left-wing cause that 50% of the population just doesn’t support.
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