...."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 it 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 America’s leading news organizations.
The history of the CIA’s involvement with the American press continues to be shrouded by an official policy of obfuscation and deception . . . . - Carl Bernstein, 1977
http://www.class.uidaho.edu/mickelsen/Media%20Readings/Berstein%20-%20CIA%20and%20the%20Media.htm---------
The Times reported that over the last twenty years, the CIA owned or subsidized more than fifty newspapers, news services, radio stations, periodicals and other communications facilities, most of them overseas. These were used for propaganda efforts, or even as cover for operations. Another dozen foreign news organizations were infiltrated by paid CIA agents. At least 22 American news organizations had employed American journalists who were also working for the CIA, and nearly a dozen American publishing houses printed some of the more than 1,000 books that had been produced or subsidized by the CIA.
When asked in a 1976 interview whether the CIA had ever told its media agents what to write, William Colby replied, "Oh, sure, all the time."http://www.stanford.edu/class/e297c/war_peace/media_war_censorship/molly_pietsch.html---------
The Myth of the Liberal Media
The Propaganda Model of News
Edward Herman and Noam Chomsky demolish one of the central tenets of our political culture, the idea of the "liberal media." Instead, utilizing a systematic model based on massive empirical research, they reveal the manner in which the news media are so subordinated to corporate and conservative interests that their function can only be described as that of "elite propaganda."
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article6435.htm-------------------
The Propaganda Model of News1997 (60 min)
An excellent discussion about how the news is sculpted to present a certain viewpoint of events around the world. Featuring Noam Chomsky, Edward Herman and Justin Lewis.
Download 32.6MB
http://www.indybay.org/uploads/myth_of_the_liberal_media.rmTHE PAUL MORAN STORYJuly 23, 2003
(20:17 min)
Paul Moran died after a suicide bombing in Iraq. He was a reporter for ABC, and one of the strongest voices along with Judith Miller of the New York Times, to claim Iraq had weapons of mass destruction.
At his funeral it raised eyebrows when CIA, FBI, and other secret agents popped up to pay their respects. In this report, an investigation in how the secret service operates within the mainstream media. Watch Online
http://203.15.102.143:8080/ramgen/media/dl_030724b.rmGARY WEBB: IN HIS WORDS Download 23MB (8:15 min)
Gary Webb broke the story of the CIA’s involvement in cocaine.
http://www.archive.org/download/Gary_Webb2/Gary_Webb_bb2.mov"Spin"Brian Springer
Video, 1995, (60 min.)
Using the 1992 presidential election as his springboard, documentary filmmaker Brian Springer captures the behind-the-scenes maneuverings of politicians and newscasters in the early 1990s. Pat Robertson banters about "homos," Al Gore learns how to avoid abortion questions, George Bush talks to Larry King about halcyon -- all presuming they're off camera. Composed of 100% unauthorized satellite footage, Spin is a surreal expose of media-constructed reality.
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http://illegal-art.org/video/vcd/Spin_1.mpgBill Moyer’s "The Secret Government" aired on PBS in 1987 and is as good as anything on the tape. Bill Moyers is one of the most recognizable and celebrated journalists whose approach to investigative journalism is highly respected. Known for his award winning PBS documentaries, in this segment he interviews several different people involved with the CIA and other government agencies who speak about various U.S. foreign policy covert and overt operations that took place during the Cold War era. His documentary gives quite an overview of what has actually happened in the last 50 years regarding the founding of the National Security Agency and the CIA. (22:04)
Download part1 2.94MB
http://storage.testpad.net/freedomfiles.org/Secretgov1.wmvand part2 2.66MB
http://storage.testpad.net/freedomfiles.org/Secretgov2.wmvS-11 REDUXDownload 40MB (10:53 min)
During wartime, media & government become one
http://www.archive.org/download/redux/redux_256kb.movEAST TIMOR BLACKOUTDownload 30MB (8:07 min)
Savage oppression backed by U.S. ignored by news outlets.
http://www.archive.org/download/east_timor/east_timor.movWAR CONSPIRACYDownload 16MB (4:17 min)
The CIA, the oily elite and their manipulation of foreign policy.
http://www.archive.org/download/war/war_256kb.movOWNING THE PEACOCKDownload 18MB (4:53 min)
The unholy alliance of General Electric & NBC.
http://www.archive.org/download/nbc_1_/nbc_1_.movMany more videos avail. for download here-
http://mysite.verizon.net/res7dhyg/id3.html----------
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Guest: John Perkins, author of "Confessions of an Economic Hit Man"Fri., December 10, 2004
Deadline Live w/Jack Blood
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pt1- Interview starts approx. half way through
http://mp3.rbnlive.com/Blood/0412/20041210_Fri_JackBlood1.mp3pt2-CIA sequence of Empire (economics, assasinations, torture, vote rigging, etc.) Naming names...vote rigging!
http://mp3.rbnlive.com/Blood/0412/20041210_Fri_JackBlood2.mp3Realplayer RAM-
http://mp3.rbnlive.com/Blood/0412/20041210_Fri_JackBlood.ram
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