Photo from The Atlantic In 1923, Russian revolutionary Leon Trotsky published his idealistic paper “The Newspaper and its Readers,” pinpointing the direction the Soviet newspaper should take to most effectively convey the beliefs of the party. Trotsky essentially considers the press as “a means of propaganda” (120) and a “weapon of enlightenment” (122). Outright, Trotsky takes Soviet news to be biased under the influence of political ideologies. Despite the fact…