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Greenwald mentions Operation Mockingbird...
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Yes... great segment. I forgot just how widespread the operation was. There were 400 press members all working with the CIA...
Here’s a link to the 1996 Select Committee report...
https://www.intelligence.senate.gov/sites/default/files/hearings/ciasuseofjournal00unit.pdf
even the Socialists have noted:
7 March 2018: World Socialist Web Site: The CIA Democrats: Part one
Introduction
by Patrick Martin
LINKS: PART ONE | PART TWO | PART THREE
An extraordinary number of former intelligence and military operatives from the CIA, Pentagon, National Security Council and State Department are seeking nomination as Democratic candidates for Congress in the 2018 midterm elections. The potential influx of military-intelligence personnel into the legislature has no precedent in US political history...
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2018/03/07/dems-m07.html
Saw this last evening.
Mockingbird?
Manufacturing Consent?
Who knew?
Chomsky, that is who, he wrote the book on this topic; “Manufacturing Consent” is widely available online for free.
The techniques are the same, the direction of push has changed.
NOT TO WORRY, YOU PROBABLY WILL NOT TURN INTO A LEFTY BY READING THE BOOK?
https://focalizalaatencion.files.wordpress.com/2012/08/herman-chomsky-2002-manufacturingconsent.pdf
THE MASS MEDIA SERVE AS A SYSTEM FOR COMMUNICATING
messages and symbols to the general populace. It is their function to
amuse, entertain, and inform, and to inculcate individuals with the
values, beliefs, and codes of behavior that will integrate them into the
institutional structures of the larger society. In a world of concentrated
wealth and major conflicts of class interest, to fulfill this role requires
systematic propaganda.