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Fire Walk With Me

(38,893 posts)
Thu Oct 11, 2012, 11:53 PM Oct 2012

For 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
K&R nt laundry_queen Oct 2012 #1
Kicking while the topic is hot. Fire Walk With Me Oct 2012 #2
Then you cant trust any of them, anywhere in the world. n/t Puzzledtraveller Oct 2012 #3
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
Kick Fire Walk With Me Oct 2012 #6
CNN's duplicity is ESPECIALLY dangerous, more so than FOXs' annabanana Oct 2012 #7

OldDem2012

(3,526 posts)
5. The US Government has been controlling the US media for quite some time....since 1948....
Fri Oct 12, 2012, 01:04 AM
Oct 2012
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.

annabanana

(52,804 posts)
7. CNN's duplicity is ESPECIALLY dangerous, more so than FOXs'
Fri Oct 12, 2012, 07:06 PM
Oct 2012

because so many people still consider CNN an honest broker of information.

"CNN - FOX with it's pants on."

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