There is an old joke that a courtier journalist who was currying Pontius Pilate’s favour witnessed Jesus walking on water and filed his story under the heading ‘Jesus cannot swim’. There used to be many such anecdotes to illustrate the media bias of the former Soviet Union. They reported a two-men field event so: ‘In an international competition, Comrade Brezhnev came second while President Reagan was second-last’.
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