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publius_x's avatar

Be careful, Glenn. Soon they'll be calling you a misogynist.

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Soapbox-Casandra's avatar

Let's be clear, we aren't talking about journalists. That's not the line of work.

This is counter-intelligence.

As William Casey allegedly said: "We’ll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false."

Operation Mockingbird was discovered and documented by Congress' Church Committee in 1975; that program placed CIA operatives in high positions throughout mainstream media.

NOTHING was done to ensure this did not continue.

Treating CNN or NPR or FOX or any of that as "news" or "journalism" is like calling our actions in Vietnam or Iraq or West Africa during the slave trade "humanitarian." It is a pretense that should be abandoned.

Our narrative is being constructed; our enemies labeled; our heroes fabricated; our consent manufactured. Glenn and others have documented this ad nauseum for years. This is not, as people often claim, corporations making shit up because "it sells." It doesn't. The "news" part of these media empires is spittle in a bucket of profits; its value is in its ability to shape the world for the other, more profitable ventures.

Our mainstream media empire is an intelligence asset. Full stop. And "reporters" like Natasha Bertrand and Rachel Maddow are either direct employees or themselves assets. They aren't arrogant. They aren't bad journalists. They aren't lazy or unprofessional. They do a job and they do it reasonably well. It's just a different job than most Americans believe.

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