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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsFor any wondering at CNN making odd calls about the debate:
US media are corrupt and cannot be trusted. Sorry, can't sugar-coat it.

And yes, you have to go to Russian media to get the story.
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For any wondering at CNN making odd calls about the debate: (Original Post)
Fire Walk With Me
Oct 2012
OP
I've told my kid on more than one occasion that CNN is "news to keep you stupid". n/t
gkhouston
Oct 2012
#4
The US Government has been controlling the US media for quite some time....since 1948....
OldDem2012
Oct 2012
#5
laundry_queen
(8,646 posts)1. K&R nt
Fire Walk With Me
(38,893 posts)2. Kicking while the topic is hot.
Puzzledtraveller
(5,937 posts)3. Then you cant trust any of them, anywhere in the world. n/t
gkhouston
(21,642 posts)4. I've told my kid on more than one occasion that CNN is "news to keep you stupid". n/t
OldDem2012
(3,526 posts)5. The US Government has been controlling the US media for quite some time....since 1948....
Operation Mockingbird
QUOTE:
In 1948 Frank Wisner was appointed director of the Office of Special Projects. Soon afterwards it was renamed the Office of Policy Coordination (OPC). This became the espionage and counter-intelligence branch of the Central Intelligence Agency. Wisner was told to create an organization that concentrated on "propaganda, economic warfare; preventive direct action, including sabotage, anti-sabotage, demolition and evacuation measures; subversion against hostile states, including assistance to underground resistance groups, and support of indigenous anti-Communist elements in threatened countries of the free world."
Later that year Wisner established Mockingbird, a program to influence the domestic American media. Wisner recruited Philip Graham (Washington Post) to run the project within the industry. Graham himself recruited others who had worked for military intelligence during the war. This included James Truitt, Russell Wiggins, Phil Geyelin, John Hayes and Alan Barth. Others like Stewart Alsop, Joseph Alsop and James Reston, were recruited from within the Georgetown Set. According to Deborah Davis (Katharine the Great): "By the early 1950s, Wisner 'owned' respected members of the New York Times, Newsweek, CBS and other communications vehicles."
Please read the entire article...very interesting and eyeopening.
QUOTE:
In 1948 Frank Wisner was appointed director of the Office of Special Projects. Soon afterwards it was renamed the Office of Policy Coordination (OPC). This became the espionage and counter-intelligence branch of the Central Intelligence Agency. Wisner was told to create an organization that concentrated on "propaganda, economic warfare; preventive direct action, including sabotage, anti-sabotage, demolition and evacuation measures; subversion against hostile states, including assistance to underground resistance groups, and support of indigenous anti-Communist elements in threatened countries of the free world."
Later that year Wisner established Mockingbird, a program to influence the domestic American media. Wisner recruited Philip Graham (Washington Post) to run the project within the industry. Graham himself recruited others who had worked for military intelligence during the war. This included James Truitt, Russell Wiggins, Phil Geyelin, John Hayes and Alan Barth. Others like Stewart Alsop, Joseph Alsop and James Reston, were recruited from within the Georgetown Set. According to Deborah Davis (Katharine the Great): "By the early 1950s, Wisner 'owned' respected members of the New York Times, Newsweek, CBS and other communications vehicles."
Please read the entire article...very interesting and eyeopening.
Fire Walk With Me
(38,893 posts)6. Kick
annabanana
(52,804 posts)7. CNN's duplicity is ESPECIALLY dangerous, more so than FOXs'
because so many people still consider CNN an honest broker of information.
"CNN - FOX with it's pants on."