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Operation Mockingbird was a secret Central Intelligence Agency campaign to influence media beginning in the 1950s.
Congressional hearings in 1976 proved CIA had been paying off editors and reporters in most mainstream media outlets
First presented in their 1988 book Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media, the "Propaganda model" views the private media as businesses interested in the sale of a product — readers and audiences — to other businesses (advertisers) rather than that of quality news to the public. Describing the media's "societal purpose", Chomsky writes, "... the study of institutions and how they function must be scrupulously ignored, apart from fringe elements or a relatively obscure scholarly literature".[1] The theory postulates five general classes of "filters" that determine the type of news that is presented in news media. These five classes are:
1.Ownership of the medium
2.Medium's funding sources
3.Sourcing
4.Flak
5.Anti-communist ideology
The first three are generally regarded by the authors as being the most important.
Originally posted by jjkenobi
It's a thousand times harder now to fake or manipulate news. Fifty years ago they could say nearly anything they wanted about other countries, espcially remote ones like Afghanistan or Iran. Now we have real time bloggers, pictures, video, twitter...
Originally posted by jjkenobi
It's a thousand times harder now to fake or manipulate news. Fifty years ago they could say nearly anything they wanted about other countries, espcially remote ones like Afghanistan or Iran. Now we have real time bloggers, pictures, video, twitter...
Originally posted by JibbyJedi
It's actually easier for them now to promote false stories on the news than back then, because there are less critical thinkers these days and the majority will only accept a news story with that "official" stamp of approval.
Also, who cares? It's not like people are dying younger from a plethora of cancers and immune deficiencies, or sacrificing themselves for wars of terror and world conquest.
I love tap water!
Semper Fi!!
Turn all those middle east countries into glass parking lots!
Kill all those hajis!
idiots.
i'm as anti-war and military as it gets but i just didn't see the point. this is about the CIA controlling news, planting nws etc.
Originally posted by ModernAcademia
This video is from 1950, just imagine how much control there is over the media now!
Now we are in 2012, just imagine how evolved Operation Mockingbird must have become.
THE CIA AND THE MEDIA
How Americas Most Powerful News Media Worked Hand in Glove with the Central Intelligence Agency and Why the Church Committee Covered It Up
In 1953, Joseph Alsop, then one of America’s leading syndicated columnists, went to the Philippines to cover an election. He did not go because he was asked to do so by his syndicate. He did not go because he was asked to do so by the newspapers that printed his column. He went at the request of the CIA.
Alsop is one of more than 400 American journalists who in the past twenty‑five years have secretly carried out assignments for the Central Intelligence Agency, according to documents on file at CIA headquarters. Some of these journalists’ relationships with the Agency were tacit; some were explicit.
There was cooperation, accommodation and overlap. Journalists provided a full range of clandestine services—from simple intelligence gathering to serving as go‑betweens with spies in Communist countries. Reporters shared their notebooks with the CIA. Editors shared their staffs. Some of the journalists were Pulitzer Prize winners, distinguished reporters who considered themselves ambassadors without‑portfolio for their country. Most were less exalted: foreign correspondents who found that their association with the Agency helped their work; stringers and freelancers who were as interested in the derring‑do of the spy business as in filing articles; and, the smallest category, full‑time CIA employees masquerading as journalists abroad. In many instances, CIA documents show, journalists were engaged to perform tasks for the CIA with the consent of the managements of America’s leading news organizations.
Originally posted by Drunkenshrew
Those journalists commited treason against their country.....
I'm not surprised. This is has been a well known fact already. There was never a freedom of speech.