How the Spooks Took over the News

How the Spooks Took over the News

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For the first time in human history, there is a concerted strategy to manipulate global perception. And the mass media are operating as its compliant assistants, failing both to resist it and to expose it.

The sheer ease with which this machinery has been able to do its work reflects a creeping structural weakness which now afflicts the production of our news. I've spent the last two years researching a book about falsehood, distortion and propaganda in the global media.
This material is being generated, in part, by intelligence agencies who continue to work without effective oversight;

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An excellent article, taken from a book by UK journalist Nick Davies, and one every ATSer should read.

It shows how the MSM have been (willingly?) used as dupes and pawns in the propaganda war.

This is nothing new, but it is the scale of the deception and the willingness of he media to comply and take what government says at face value, that is threatening the idea of a free press

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