Buzzflash from 2003 on Operation Mockingbird

[EVDebs]

http://www.buzzflash.com/farrell/03/05/06.html

May 6, 2003
America's Fishiest First Family
by Maureen Farrell

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""Media Manipulation

Operation Mockingbird, the CIA's plan to infiltrate America's newsrooms, was such a success that former CIA director William Colby boasted, "The Central Intelligence Agency owns everyone of any major significance in the major media." Carl Bernstein substantiated this, telling Rolling Stone that hundreds of journalists and news organizations were involved in this subversion. And though officials have been caught planting fabrications in the past (a PR firm concocted the "babies in incubators" story that swayed the Senate into supporting Bush #41's Gulf War), the current White House has perfected the art of propaganda.

"What's changed is that there's no shame anymore in doing it directly," media author and Harper's magazine publisher John MacArthur recently reported, alluding to the lies the Bush administration told regarding Iraq's weapons capabilities. "The concept of a self-governing American republic has been crippled by this propaganda," he mused. The whole idea that we can govern ourselves and have an intelligent debate, free of cant, free of disinformation, I think it's dead." http://reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=ourWorldNews&storyID=2667151

[Lone_Wolf]

1. Kick

n/t

[BushIsBurning]

2. Makes You Want to Heave Your Cakes..

When you read about the filthy crimes the Bush Dyanasty has commited and walked away from, richer and more powerful than ever...

[bush_is_wacko]

3. When American's go around living their life without questioning their

leaders as MOST of us have been doing for MANY years democracy dies. There are too many American's who believe that since we don't have terrorist's and tyrants running around gassing and, torturing, and mutilating people we have a DEMOCRACY. I can't believe Americans have let themselves become this dimwitted these days!

[EVDebs]

4. During the Church commission which uncovered Mockingbird

in the '70s GHWBush was doing damage control...