That “political agenda” is any agenda generally contrary to the government or the will of the people.
I do not disagree that Putin is or was a KGB thug.
My point is when a journalist stirs the pot he should be well aware of the consequences. Again, I do not condone murder, but if that country has a long history of journalists getting murdered, then any journalist going there is really stupid for not being aware of the consequences.
My disliking of journalists stems from our very own journalists advancing the left’s agenda. They for sure are more interested in agenda than they are truth. Do I have a general prejudice against journalists because of this? Yes.
In fairness, there haven't been any Western journalists killed in Russia...ever that I'm aware of, and many of the Russian journalists have been killed covering the war in Chechnya.
Despite the screeching from the Soros crowd, I doubt there is much evidence of a central government conspiracy to silence Russian journalists, although clearly the Russian government doesn't kowtow to the media like it does in the US.
As a former card-carrying journalist, as opposed to being just a plain old journalist now, I can say that some US “journalists” were KGB assets of various types. Walter Duranty comes to mind though he later admitted that he deliberately withheld the truth in his NY Times pieces.
I.F. Stone - covert member of the Communist Party USA and Soviet asset of the KGB
Lionel Martin - CBS stringer - Havana, Old line CPUSA red
Charles R. Allen - CPUSA and Soviet disinformation specialist on war criminals from WW2. Used by NBC (I believe) to discredit European Nazi Hunters, the Klarsfelds. Seems Allen was getting his information on “war criminals” from the KGB and Stasi, if you read between the lines and talk to other Nazi hunters who knew about his disinformation writings in CPUSA publications such as “Jewish Currents”.
NY Times obit writer, Alden Whitman, admitted former CPUSA member who wrote very positive obituaries about dead CPUSA leaders and members, including Paul Robeson (Soviet asset and CP covert member)(dissected by Accuracy in Media about 1974) and Hugh Mulzac (National Maritime Union leader).
David Bacon - CPUSA member who wrote for a regional Newspaper Guild publication
Carl Bloice - former CPUSA reporter in Moscow for the Daily World and Peoples Daily/Weekly World. Recently the key public relations person for the California Nurses Association, one of the top unions supporting Obamacare.
David Axelrod - once a Chicago Tribune reporter, picked up by two Chicago communists, one a Party member - David S. Canter (as was his father - Henry Canter) and one a veteran CPUSA supporter (Don Rose), to head their far-left Oakland?-Hyde Park weekly pro-communist rag. They were his journalistic mentors, and voila, Axelrod ends up as one of Obama’s key advisors and propagandists.
Karen De Young - Wash. Post Foreign Service editor. Wrote glowing disinformation about the Marxist Sandinistas which made them out as the second coming of Christ, or George Washington. Never identified all three factions as hardcore Marxists, both Castroite and Maoist in orientation. Even communist sources admitted they all three factions were marxists.
Some WP writers are married to hardcore leftists, including one man who was a Cambodia genocide denier (William Goodfellow), at the exact time that the mass murder was well under way. He testified about it before Congress and was literally called a liar by Rep. Solarz (D-NY), who was certified liberal himself.
And there were/are, more. KGB fingers are suspected to have helped guide a couple other national writers but more proof is needed to verify it as true (Carl Stern, WP; Tad Szulc (his daughter was an SDS-type radical); Mr. WP; etc.
Some we will eventually learn the truth about. Others will always remain a mystery unless KGB files and FBI files are truly opened. Some may just be liberals; others, traitors.
Welcome to the wonderful world of subversion where often things are not as they seem.