New Acronym: "CCCP" = "Corporate Controlled Conservative Press"

[StefanX]

CCCP = "Corporate Controlled Conservative Press"

Has a nice Soviet-era ring to it, doesn't it?

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Disclosure - I didn't invent this myself! Found it on DailyKos.com

Google cccp site:dailykos.com

[Arugula Latte]

1. I'm likin' it.

And, BTW, a belated welcome to DU! :hi:

[AnnieBW]

9. Not Quite...

I was a Russian major in college, during the early Gorbachev days. So pardon my nit-picking here. The acronym CCCP is would actually be transliterated as SSSR. A capital "R" looks like a "P" in Russian. Actually, it's been so long now that I can't remember what the Russian name of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics was called. Soyuz Sovyetskyy Sotsialichnestyy Respublika, I think.

[StefanX]

10. Welcome to DU AnnieBW - from another newbie - and a Russian major too!

I also majored in Russian in college, a bit earlier than the Gorbachov days. It's true that the "CCCP" printed in Cyrillic characters actually transliterates to "SSSR" in Latin characters ("Soyuz Sovyetskikh Sotsialisticheskikh Respublik").

As "CCCP" was printed in many places (on their Olympic uniforms, spaceships, etc.) many Americans think Soviet Union when they see "CCCP". I've also seen it on some t-shirts recently.

Of course as you point out, in Russian this wouldn't be pronounced "see see see pee" but rather "ess ess ess air". So "CCCP" is the Russian (Cyrillic) abbreviation of "Union of Soviet Socialist Republics". (Union = Soyuz.) Of course, the Russians would never write "SSSR" because they don't have the Latin letters "S" or "R" in their alphabet - so in English we end up with "USSR".

Anyways nowadays "CCCP" = "Conservative Controlled Corporate Press" ties in nicely with "Pravda on the Potomac" (nickname for the Washington Post) and "Izvestia on the Hudson" (NYTimes). In the long run it will probably be more effective than "SCLM" especially when you factor in the difficulty naive conservatives have with irony.

[YOY]

12. Pochti Tochno...

"Soyuz Sovietskih Sosialisticheskih Respublik" (The Soviet Socialist Republics part is Genative Plural and thus the adjectives have the "X" or "h-sounding" ends.

Respublika (Singular Nominative)
Respubliki (Plural Nominative)
Respublik (Genative Plural)

If it weren't for the cases (padezhi) the language would be much easier.

(grad school)

[TomInTib]

2. Nailed it! Am watching Jim Lehrer on PBS now, Stewart later.

[90-percent]

4. Excellent

Nice beat, you can really dance to it.

I give it a 10!

-85%,

completely oblivious of ALL CCCP

[Eric J in MN]

3. I use the phrase CCCP at SpeakSpeak News....

http://www.speakspeak.org/speak-blog/index.php?s=cccp&submit=Search

[SpiralHawk]

5. Some other DUer coined CRAP

Corporate Republican American Press - CRAP


Saw it somewhere or other on the board today.

[salinen]

6. Keep it up pal

and you'll have a long and illustrious career here on du.

[wanpete]

7. That's it! That's exactly what they are...

they continuously bash dems for not having an "alternative" to this mess we're in in Iraq, but no of them ever question * and the lies that got us there in the first place.

After watching Hardball tonight, I'm hanging it up. I can't take it anymore. I know many on the DU caution us to do this, but tonight took the cake. Norah O'Donnell should be truly ashamed of herself as a journalist. I hope she watches the repeat of the show and sees how she let this WINGNUT MAXIMUS take over the show, with no reigning in by her. She let him pimp slap her around her own show (tweety's show). This is just the type of BS that allowed *co to storm into a sovereign nation unquestioned. and they are still afraid to tell the real truth.

Truly putrid and disgusting...:puke:

[StefanX]

13. I just got cable a month ago

All I've watched so far is "Kathy Griffin" on Bravo and some shows on Logo. Can't deal with the rest of it.

The only reason I got cable was to get high-speed internet. Never bought a TV or subscribed to cable before - I think one-way broadcast media is the main reason the country's so confused. I'm too used to being able to talk back when talked to.

Now, if we ever get REAL broadband in this country (the 45,000KBps upload speeds we were promised in 1994, instead of the measly 200KBps speed we got now), then there'd be a broadcast studio in every living room, and I finally might be lured to the TV.

[meow2u3]

8. Perf!

You took the words right off my keyboard! :yourock:

[bpilgrim]

11. too, confusing...

Main Stream Media Whores :evilgrin:

:P

peace

[pacalo]

14. I like it. Fits. Perfectly.

[newswolf56]

15. I prefer RAMM:

Reactionary American Media Monopoly -- because RAMM accurately portrays content, form and function, and does so without redundancy: the rightist content whether in print or broadcast media, all of it rammed down our throats 24/7.

Besides, and despite its subsequent horrendous failings, the Russian Revolution was at its heart an effort to achieve economic democracy, and the USSR at least gave lip service that goal -- a lot more than the United States has ever done. Therefore the Russians do not deserve the mockery made of their efforts by using "CCCP" as an acronym for the U.S. oligarchy's propaganda machine.

[StefanX]

16. Just like the US - which also gives "lip service" to economic democracy

And the Soviet media was full of lies, just like ours.

[newswolf56]

17. The U.S. has NEVER given (even) lip service to economic democracy.

The only such message ever articulated in this nation comes from organized labor -- and that message isn't mere lip service: it's for real.


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