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Kun Bela's avatar

An excellent and extraordinarily detailed article, although the structure he described is very familiar to me, since I was a reader of Pravda and other Soviet state-published press, not to mention the former communist centrally published and proofread printed and broadcast media published in my own country !

I can already feel the "smell" when press hyenas inform the public in biased, state-controlled articles dictated by secret services in no small part ! Well, around the US press, I feel a stinking dead smell like the last time I smelled in an American forest, I found a badger that had been dead for days !

If someone seriously wants to delve into how the US uses its secret services to control, for example, German press workers, I would wholeheartedly recommend Udo Ulfkotte's book "Bought Journalists"! I would like to note that the author has left this world as if by order, after his pacemaker failed, what a coincidence!

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unwarranted's avatar

Noam Chomsky wrote a piece in what used to be Progressive Magazine (I think), in which he cited a TV news reader in Russia who was removed from his job to attend re-education classes because he called the Russian troops in Afghanistan an “invasion.”

Chomsky contrasted the incident with the virtual impossibility of a similar occurrence in the U.S., with respect to the American war with Vietnam, precisely because, as he stated in the interview from Caitlin’s post, any American reporter who thought (correctly) that the U.S. had “invaded” Vietnam would never be in a position to make such an embarrassing (accurate) report.

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Billy C's avatar

Ha just looked him up and literally the first sentence on wikipedia calls him a conspiracy theorist. I’m intrigued…

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