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from ANGRY LOUD AND CLEAR TRUTH
CHAPTER TWENTY ONE: MEDIA’S PROPAGANDA TACTICS
When we discuss the media, there are a few things to keep in mind. Primary to a clear perception and understanding, you need to remember that those on top-the most wealthy and powerful players- are in the Council of Foreign Relations, of which the members are appointed by oligarch David Rockefeller Jr., a kingpin in world affairs. Let me quote him from his book “Memoirs”-
“some even believe we are part of a secret cabal working against the best interests of the United States, characterizing my family and me as internationalists and conspiring with others around the world to build a more integrated global political and economic structure, one world, if you will. If that’s the charge, I stand guilty, and I am proud of it.”
Do you think that the most powerful and wealthy people on the planet who are meeting in secrecy are planning how to benefit us? With that in remembrance, consider that media, including the news, is a business, more specifically an entertainment industry. Entertainment is defined in the Webster dictionary as amusement and diversion.
That is why commercials often seem to attempt to be funny, as do sitcoms. That also explains the videos that focus on superheroes, aliens, monsters, and all kinds of fantasies. I cannot recall the last time I saw an accurate documentary on television. The history channel puts on an appearance of truth, but always falls short of it.
TV and radio receive virtually 100% of their income from advertisers, newspapers 75%, and magazines about 50%. It is very concerning that the NY Times has so little visible advertising. How are they funded? The media are under great pressure to shape their product to accommodate their advertisers. Advertisers influence the media by restricting and whitewashing media content by removing, or threatening to remove, financial support if their demands are not met.
Since media are funded by advertising, their economic survival depends on delivering an audience for advertisers. To them, people exist as potential consumers whose most desirable qualities are gullibility and compliance to media advice- watch, believe, obey, and buy. Corporate owners, aligned with the CFR, also have an interest in furthering their agenda.
Media news chains have ordered their papers, radio shows, and television programs to adopt a uniform editorial position on certain issues and political candidates, even to support specific worldviews. Management is replaced if it doesn’t perform to the ideals of ownership, and they control which ideas and which version of the facts reach the public. The news that we read is what editors and owners decide to publish, it is not dependent on reporters.
Otis Chandler, past publisher of the Los Angeles Times, said “I’m the chief executive. I set policy and I’m not going to surround myself with people who disagree with me… I surround myself with people who see the way I do.” Other publishers do likewise.
Sponsors influence not only the news, but partner with Hollywood, and every aspect of the media, to shape our mindsets and worldviews. “Unreliable Sources” makes this quote and statement on page 61:- “Proctor and Gamble,” which spends over a billion dollars a year in advertising, once decreed in a memo on broadcast policy: “There will be no material that gives offense, either directly or indirectly to any commercial organization of any sort.” Ditto for Prudential Insurance:
“A positive image of business and finance is important to sustain on the air.” If a business is cast as the bad guy, it must be clear that it is an exception, and the script must also include benevolent business folks, so as not to leave “the wrong impression.” Corporate sponsors are unlikely to underwrite programs that engage in serious criticism of environmental pollution, occupational hazards, or other problems attributable to corporate malfeasance.”
This is evidence to support the debunking of the concept that capitalism as it exists today is a free market, with competition. The corporations are not so competitive, nor are they attempting to make products or services that benefit mankind. In reality, they work together towards a mutual agenda, shaping the minds of the people to facilitate the favoritism towards their endeavors, and not allowing for informative facts leading to free thought and dissenting opinions within the populace. He who controls the media, controls the minds of the people.
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CHAPTER TWENTY TWO: MASTERS OF MANIPULATIVE DECEPTION
In “Unreliable Sources” I found how media and government are wed. Like the military industrial complex, and like pharmaceuticals, and other corporate capitalistic (do not assume that this is the only form of government that does this) ventures, the media has incorporated itself in the rule of this nation (and others), and vice versa. Let me present you here with a list of some revolving doors within media and government. These are found on pages 110-120.
John Hughes was a PR man for Reagan’s State Department who later was employed as an editorial columnist for the Christian Science Monitor, whose diatribes on Central America and the State Department’s positions sounded very similar.
NBC Nightly News reporter John Chancellor had no trouble on his conscience to become a propagandist for the state by becoming Voice of America (ran radio programs in Vietnam attempting to discourage and dismay Vietnamese via propaganda) director under the Johnson administration. Another Voice of America program director (under Reagan and Bush) was Sid Davis, who had been the white house correspondent and Washington Bureau chief for NBC news.
The United States Information Agency (USIA) is a blatant propaganda promoter, as is VOA, and Edward Murrow of CBS News and columnist Carl Rowan took turns as USIA director under John Kennedy. Kennedy’s press secretary, Pierre Salinger, became chief foreign correspondent of ABC World News Tonight. The famous Bill Moyers was press secretary for Lyndon Johnson and later was made a household name as commentator and reporter for CBS and PBS.
I am not giving you the full list, but here are some more. Reagan’s communications director, David Gergen, became editor of US News and World Report in 1983, and his deputy, Joanna Bistany became a top executive at ABC News that same year. Peggy Noonan who had been a script writer for CBS radio commentary for Dan Rather later composed speeches for Reagan and Bush.
George Will helped prepare Reagan for his debate against Carter, then praised Reagan as he covered the debate on ABC News, “forgetting” to mention his association with Reagan. Instead of hurting his career, when this was uncovered, it enhanced his reputation among media mavens. Page 113-“Both journalists and elected officials tend to view the world in ways that conform to the national security establishment.”
The book was published in 1992, a later year would have resulted in scores of more familiar names and news personalities you would recognize. Let me move on to name a few higher level inter-locks. Robert McNamara, who was Defense Secretary for Kennedy and Johnson retired from the board of directors of the Washington Post Company, and Nicholas Katzenbach, who was Attorney General, also sat on the Post board. Much more influential than journalists are the high-placed top executives who decide policy and editorial practices to be followed meticulously.
Other former cabinet-ranking officials also sat on boards of major print media, including NY Times, Los Angeles Times, and Reader’s Digest Association. Corporate boards of the three major television networks are infiltrated with government power-brokers. Carter’s Defense Secretary Harold Brown, Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, and General David Jones, Reagans’ Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of staff; were all on the board of GE/NBC, as was former Attorney General William French Smith.
William Casey had been chief counsel and original board member of CapCities, and became CIA director in 1981, later CapCities acquired ABC during Reagan’s second term. Casey had also been Securities and Exchange Commissioner under Nixon, and owned much CapCities stock until his death in 1987. He advocated covert operations, and was part of a network of spooks who used American companies, especially mass media, as tools of espionage. GE, owner of NBC, had a contract with the CIA to estimate Soviet military strength-while GE accumulated huge profits as a key player in the military industrial complex. Now, they wouldn’t lie, would they?
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CIA involvement in the news from ANGRY LOUD AND CLEAR TRUTH
Ever since the CIA was formed in 1947, publishers and executive management of the media have volunteered their services for the agency- page 114. On page 115, we find some revealing quotes: “One journalist is worth 20 agents” a high-level CIA agent told investigative reporter Carl Bernstein. Former CIA Deputy Director Ray S Cline called the American news media: “the only unfettered espionage agencies in the country.”
In exchange for career-enhancing scoops and leaks, reporters alter stories and disseminate propaganda at the request of the CIA. For decades, hundreds of journalists have maintained covert associations with the CIA, and are paid for their services to it. Former CIA director William Colby stated: “Let’s not pick on some poor reporters. Let’s go to the managements. They were witting.”
Tom Braden headed the CIA’s Global Propaganda Operation; after leaving it, he worked as a syndicated columnist and co-host of CNN Crossfire. He once wrote an article in the Saturday Evening Post, called: “Why I’m Glad the CIA is Immoral.” Embarrassing revelations by Carl Bernstein in Rolling Stone magazine in 1977 included the following statement: “There is ample evidence that America’s leading publishers allowed themselves and their news organizations to become handmaids to the intelligence services.”
The NY Times ran a three- part series on the CIA and media shortly later, disclosing that at various times, the CIA owned or subsidized over fifty newspapers, news services, radio stations, periodicals, book publishers and news entities, most of which were overseas. A CIA official told the Times: “We had at least one newspaper in every foreign capital at any given time.” Page 117.
CIA documents display that the US public was targeted by CIA propaganda. A July 13th, 1951 memo stated the CIA’s beginnings of mind control operations: “broad and comprehensive, involving both domestic and overseas activities.” Another CIA document of that time explained that CIA officers met regularly to exchange ideas regarding “the broader aspects of psychology as it pertains to the control of groups or masses rather than the mind of an individual.”
The CIA and the press appear to have an attitude in common. That it is okay to deceive the public. Philip Geyelin, a CIA agent who became an editor for the Washington Post, said: “We will get nowhere without first stipulating that while circumstances alter almost any case you can think of, the President has an inherent right- perhaps an obligation in particular concerns-to deceive.”
This pretty much explains the deceptions that pervade all over the world in every aspect of society, and I think you can now very clearly perceive how we have all been misled, and some methods that were used.
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