CIA or CNN? The Media Deep State’s Echo Chamber - Greenfield

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[UCANSEE2]

The Media IS the Deep State.

[Grampa Dave]

James Clapper, Obama’s Director of National Intelligence, allegedly coordinated with CNN. And then took a job at CNN. Clapper isn’t alone. Obama’s CIA boss, John Brennan, is over at NBC News. Josh Campbell, Comey’s assistant, is at CNN. The three arms of the Deep State offer interchangeable employment. Much as Fusion GPS was paying the wife of a top DOJ official to investigate Trump.

This is what organizational integration looks like. And that’s what a Deep State looks like.

CIA or CNN? Who can tell the difference?

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This defies your logic, until you finally realize some day:

That the Deep State owns/controls the DNC, the DOJ/FBI/CIA, our media and its fake news/lying mediots. Their liars are interchangeable. It doesn’t matter where they work or get a paycheck. They are controlled by the Deep State.

[Bratch]

[allendale]

Point to remember. Shortly after Trump was elected Chuck Schumer made a grinning comment that Trump had better be careful because the CIA was a powerful institution. Somehow the plotters let the dopey Schumer get wind of what they were doing and the fool could not contain himself. It was very telling.

[Liz]

Former FBI deputy director Andrew McCabe informed Comey that CNN would use the existence of the briefing as the basis for its story. “The trigger for them is they know the material was discussed in the brief and presented in an attachment,” he wrote. (Likewise, the FBI’s Peter Strzok appeared to have his own oddly close relationship with the media.)

How did McCabe know what CNN’s trigger for running the story would be? And why would he need to have that information and distribute it within the Bureau?

The obvious explanation is coordination.

[poinq]

CIA and CNN work together. But there are more involved. Even Les Moonvez said in a graduation speech last year that he enjoyed his job because he got to affect change in Americas thinking through his news and programming units. Also known as propaganda. So its not just CNN. Its CBS NBC, CNN, NPR, ABC, NYT, WP, and several web-sites.

[piasa]

Nice, explains this rat’s nest well.

Newslaundering.

[bert]

The current is a vast conspiracy that will extend from the former president down to and including clerk typists that prepared the conspiratorial documents.

Then there are the publishers and CEO’s of newspapers and TV networks. Although protected by the first amendment for what they say, they are not protected from the criminal conspiracy charges. It will be easily shown that regular channels of communication were established to propagandize the conspiracy objectives.

[JonPreston]

Decades ago the KooKs told me about Operation Mockingbird. I thought they were nuts. They were right, I was wrong.

[Louis Foxwell]

Holding media accountable means controlling ownership. Media is wholly owned by international corporations headed by anti-American ideologues. All of it. Requiring US ownership of US media is the first step in freeing the MSM from globalist tentacles.

[Robert A Cook PE]

The media used the leaks about the briefing to justify reporting on the allegations. Obama officials used media interest to justify their own interest. And the media used the interest of Obama officials to justify their interest.

But that’s how echo chambers work.

Echo chambers blow up stories by spreading a single narrative into a broad stream of integrated loops that appear diverse when they’re actually the same. (That’s none too coincidentally how the left operates. Its diversity is just a series of front groups controlled by a small number of ideological bosses.) What ordinary people see are a lot of experts, organizations and agencies all saying the same thing.

So there must be something to it.

More important - and something I'm surprised Greenfield missed! - is that the DNC (and thuse the media endlessly were able to repeat) reported “all 17 US intelligence agencies) reported the SAME THING: That Trump's campaign was aided by and colluded with the Russians!
But it was actually only 3 agencies that reported that “result”.
And those three “agencies” - not 7! were NOT the analysts and professionals, but were small groups led by Strzok (FBI counterintelligence head), DNI (Clapper) and CYA (Brennan) who hand-picked the people to write that specific conclusion in their “analysis”!

[Eric in the Ozarks]

I’m sick of seeing Mueller’s moosejaw mug.

[Sirius Lee]

Soviet era Pravda would blush to be so blatant a police state media tool and propaganda organ as CNN is.

It is obvious that the Mockingbird program never went away.
It was just renamed "CNN".

[Liz]

Nails it......Obama Hillary and the rest had so much to hide they resorted to illegal activities for fear they would be outed.

[GOPJ]

Media smears are nothing new. Media coups are a whole other thing.

James Clapper, Obama’s Director of National Intelligence, allegedly coordinated with CNN. And then took a job at CNN...

Obama’s CIA boss, John Brennan, is over at NBC News.

Josh Campbell, Comey's assistant, is at CNN.

The three arms of the Deep State offer interchangeable employment. Much as Fusion GPS was paying the wife of a top DOJ official to investigate Trump.

ping

[relictele]

What the media likes to pretend is journalism is really just a bunch of PR and shadier outfits like Fusion GPS waging a shadow war using corporate media.

Yes we've all become too comfortable with the concept and term of 'leak.' A leak is a disclosure, usually of a partial set of facts, a name, etc. But DC is about boilerplate issued from a central location with all the buzzwords and punctuation provided in advance.

Many so-called reporters merely affix their names to it then go to Starbucks or the scotch bar by noon with the rest of the day to put their feet up and surf Twitter.

Sportswriter Rick Reilly wrote a novel called 'Missing Links' which was a funny Caddyshack-style portrayal of a scrubby municipal golf course and its tenuous relationship with a posh country club nearby.

The protagonist was nicknamed 'Stick' (as in golf club) and his nominal job was writing those hackneyed two-line reviews for outfits similar to The Kirkus Reviews about books which he may or may not have actually read. 'John Smith has produced another gripping spy thriller!'....'Sally Jones tugs at the heartstrings with her tale of loss and redemption.' etc.

The money was far from plentiful but it did give him plenty of time to play 36 holes a day.

Too many DC 'journalists' are just like Stick - phoning it in.

[relictele]

Its diversity is just a series of front groups controlled by a small number of ideological bosses.

The fine print at non-profit web sites is, well, fine. And dry and boring at first. But read enough of the 'about us' and their funding disclosures and you find a very short list of 'foundations' and wealthy donors.

[relictele]

Yes. And, as the author suggests, the media act as a Pushme-Pullyou (from Dr. Doolittle).

Nowhere was this more obvious than Obama’s fatuous claim that he read about the IRS abuses in the papers. He knew about them all along - their appearance in the papers merely gave him pretext to mention them and/or to claim no knowledge.