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MSM Promotes Yet Another CIA Press Release As News
"WaPo, whose sole owner is a CIA contractor, has published yet another anonymously sourced CIA press release disguised as a news report which just so happens to facilitate longstanding CIA foreign policy" https://medium.com/@caityjohnstone/msm-promotes-yet-another-cia-press-release-as-news-8b8b078ef51a
"WaPo, whose sole owner is a CIA contractor, has published yet another anonymously sourced CIA press release disguised as a news report which just so happens to facilitate longstanding CIA foreign policy" https://medium.com/@caityjohnstone/msm-promotes-yet-another-cia-press-release-as-news-8b8b078ef51a
WaPo’s virulent neoconservative war pig @JoshRogin describes what was told to him by unnamed sources about the contents of a “secret” CIA document which alleges that Putin is “probably” overseeing an interference operation in the US presidential election. https://twitter.com/jaketapper/status/1308366421316038659?s=20
True to form, at no point does WaPo follow standard journalistic protocol and disclose its blatant financial conflict of interest with the CIA when promoting an unproven CIA narrative which happens to serve the consent-manufacturing agendas of the CIA. https://act.rootsaction.org/p/dia/action3/common/public/?action_KEY=8979
And somehow in our crazy, propaganda-addled society, this is accepted as “news”.
The CIA has had a hard-on for the collapse of the Russian Federation for many years, and preventing the rise of another multipolar world at all cost has been an open agenda of US imperialism since the fall of the Soviet Union.
https://web.archive.org/web/20130724114554/http://www.newamericancentury.org/def_natl_sec_pdf_01.pdf
https://web.archive.org/web/20130724114554/http://www.newamericancentury.org/def_natl_sec_pdf_01.pdf
Indeed it is clear that the escalations we’ve been watching unfold against Russia were in fact planned well in advance of 2016, and it is only by propaganda narratives like this one that consent has been manufactured for a world-threatening new cold war.
https://medium.com/@caityjohnstone/dem-convention-made-no-mention-of-russiagate-or-impeachment-because-those-were-fake-things-737ff9bf676e
https://medium.com/@caityjohnstone/dem-convention-made-no-mention-of-russiagate-or-impeachment-because-those-were-fake-things-737ff9bf676e
There is no excuse for a prominent news outlet publishing a CIA press release disguised as news in facilitation of these CIA agendas, much less one about something "probably happening. Yet it's being wildly shared and repeated by prominent outlets like NYT, CNN and NBC.
And of course all the usual liberal influencers are taking the claims and wildly exaggerating their certainty: https://twitter.com/mmpadellan/status/1308457905562292225?s=20
The CIA-to-pundit pipeline, wherein intelligence agencies leak information that is picked up by news agencies and then exaggerated by popular influencers, has always been an important part of manufacturing establishment Russia hysteria, e.g. "bountygate": https://twitter.com/aaronjmate/status/1305570430925766657?s=20
If you’ve ever wondered how rank-and-file members of the public can be so certain of completely unproven intelligence claims, the CIA-to-pundit pipeline is a big part of it.
The CIA has a well-documented history of infiltrating and manipulating the mass media for propaganda purposes, and to this day the largest supplier of leaked information from the Central Intelligence Agency to the news media is the CIA itself. https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20180427/18163239731/courts-says-cia-can-dump-classified-info-to-members-public-still-deny-theyve-been-publicly-released.shtml
A lying, psychopathic spook agency with an extensive history of deceit and depravity that selectively gives information to preferred reporters is not doing so for noble reasons. It's doing so for the same rapacious power-grabbing reasons it does all the other evil things it does.
The way mainstream media has become split along increasingly hostile ideological lines means that all the manipulators need to do to advance a given narrative is set it up to make one side look bad and then share it with a news outlet from the other side.
The way media is set up to masturbate people’s confirmation bias instead of report objective facts will then cause the narrative to go viral throughout that partisan faction, regardless of how true or false it might be.
And indeed they are clearly prepared to do exactly that: https://twitter.com/caitoz/status/1291936114698153984?s=20
The propaganda machine is only getting louder and more aggressive. We’re being prepped for something.
Just updated the article to include this gem: https://twitter.com/MuckRock/status/965650954040291329?s=20
