Under the constitutional order, the intelligence community is subordinate to the president, and is supposed to follow his leadership. Using media to manipulate the public’s perceptions and attitudes is not part of their legitimate role:
Operation Mockingbird
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I can’t remember a time when we had fair and balanced reporting. My memory goes back to the days when your choice was either Huntley/Brinkley or Walter Cronkite . They were liberally biased.
In 1975, Church Committee Congressional investigations revealed Agency connections with journalists and civic groups.
Edmund Burke said there were Three Estates in Parliament; but, in the Reporters’ Gallery yonder, there sat a Fourth Estate more important far than they all.
The NY Times and The Washington Post are caught frequently twisting the news and later publishing a correction.
A word to the wise : Love many, trust few and always paddle your own canoe?
It becomes a guessing game, Fred. When we see obviously biased reporting being repeated among multiple news outlets, is it strictly media bias or is it the government squeezing media to say certain things?
Sen. Church and the House Committee Chairman who dared to investigate the CIA in the most limited way…were immediately turned out of office, in an election where virtually ever other incumbent was re-elected.
Congress got the hint and is now entirely subservient to the Praetorian Guard.
There is a certain degree of ruthlessness, J. Sobran. They need to be taken down at least a couple of notches.
Dems own the media.
The media controls the narrative.
The narrative spawns our opinions.
We vote based on our opinions.
If you control the narrative, you control the votes.
Jaycee, that is a logical progression that you describe. It’s good that, in spite of that reality, their influence is declining for other reasons.
CIA Director William Casey (1981-87) said: “We’ll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes in false.”
Casey also said that anyone of any significance in the media was owned by the CIA.
I was unaware of those statements, J. Sobran. I wish this all had been addressed before the monster was created.
I wish Tulsi the best in what I’m sure are good intentions. But it is abundantly clear that Operation Mockingbird never even paused. Show me one instance where the CIA and media have not worked hand in glove!
They worked hand-in-glove in the lead up to the Afghanistan and Iraqi invasions, during the Faucian dystopia euphemistically called Covid, in the Russia Hoax, the J6 Fedsurrection, the US-manipulated overthrow of Assad in Syria, the coverage of the genocide in Gaza, the coverage of the Ukraine War (such that no MSM will ever publish what Putin and the Russian public agree is there goal in that war), et al.
That’s a very discouraging list, J. Sobran. I hope she can prevail, but it does not appear that has happened as of yet.
Certain people in the “alternative media” have been saying this for years. Hints the reason for MSM media labeling these people “conspiracy theorists”. Whether you like him or not, there is a reason #alexjoneswasright has trended many times over the last several years on social media.
Tommy, yes, he was right on a lot of things.
What is mind-boggling is that many times, it was common sense they were labeling as conspiracy theories.