Conspiracy Reality | Think Tank - YouTube

Mark Crispin Miller, Communications Professor NYU, discusses the origin and the use of the term "conspiracy theory" in the media.

Conspiracy Reality | Think Tank - YouTube

JFK Lancer - President John F. Kennedy Assassination Latest News and Research

JFK Lancer - President John F. Kennedy Assassination Latest News and Research:

"Book reviews and feature articles are particularly appropriate for this purpose." (Of discrediting those who question the Warren Commission.)

CIA Influence on the Mass Media

For the families of Haditha, this is a matter of honour

"If there was any doubt that the killings that day could be classed as anything other than war crimes, a number of incriminating documents have come to light in the past few weeks that place guilt beyond doubt. Some 400 pages from the military interrogation of the offending troops, which should have been destroyed as the Americans left Iraq last year, were uncovered by a New York Times reporter at a junkyard in Baghdad."

"Not a single marine I interviewed was able to survive after their tour without a tranquilliser prescription.... It's worth remembering that most were just teenagers when they joined the force."

"The Iraqi families who turned down the insulting offer of $2,500 in compensation for each family member killed are still waiting to see justice done."

For the families of Haditha, this is a matter of honour | Nick Broomfield | Comment is free | The Guardian

The marines urination video doesn't show the real war crime | Ross Caputi | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk

This young ex-Marine bravely tells the world about the mentality behind war crimes, how horrific they are, and notes that the corporate media reports on them with indifference.

The marines urination video doesn't show the real war crime | Ross Caputi | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk

Should the New York Times seek the Truth -- or mindlessly regurgitate what they've been told?

"'Should the Times be a Truth Vigilante?' asked Arthur Brisbane. 'Yes,' came the resounding reply.... Having asked, in a completely innocent way, whether the Times should behave like an advocate for the readers, rather than a stenographer to politicians, the question cannot now be unasked."

The New York Times public editor's very public utterance | Clay Shirky

Arthur Brisbane and selective stenography - Salon.com

Arthur Brisbane and selective stenography - Glenn Greenwald, Salon.com

Iran: The Neocons Are At It Again

Iran: The Neocons Are At It Again, Ralph Nader

William Schaap - Part 1/8 - The Media, CIA, FBI & Disinfo. - YouTube

William Schaap - Part 1/8 - The Media, CIA, FBI & Disinfo. - YouTube

NYT Caught Lying about Iran & IAEA Report on Civilian Nuclear Program - YouTube

NYT Caught Lying about Iran & IAEA Report on Civilian Nuclear Program - YouTube

Bill Moyers Journal Transcripts: Buying the War

Very good transcript of Buying the War. Includes a lot of interesting quotes about the media.

Bill Moyers Journal . Transcripts | PBS

Media unable to dissent from "the official line"

Bill Moyers Journal . Transcripts | PBS:

BILL MOYERS: IT HAD NOW BECOME UNFASHIONABLE TO DISSENT FROM THE OFFICIAL LINE - UNFASHIONABLE AND RISKY.

BILL O'REILLY: (Fox 2/26/03) Anyone who hurts this country in a time like this. Well let's just say you will be spotlighted.

Tom Brokaw: "All Wars are Based on Propaganda" → Washingtons Blog

Tom Brokaw: "All Wars are Based on Propaganda" → Washington's Blog:

In response to former White House press secretary's Scott McClellan's revelations, veteran news anchor Tom Brokaw said "all wars are based on propaganda."

Corporate Media Turns On Bloggers

Once Again, Corporate Media Turns On Bloggers

"The White House has an unbelievable ability to control the flow of information at any time but especially at a time when they are planning to go to war.” Tom Brokaw

Michael Parenti: Conspiracy Phobia on the Left

http://aotearoaawiderperspective.wordpress.com/2008/05/28/michael-parenti-on-conspiracy-theories-and-the-left-wing-paranoia-about-them/

The CIA's propaganda machine

The CIA also owns dozens of newspapers and magazines the world over. These not only provide cover for their agents but allow them to plant misinformation that regularly makes it back to the US through the wire services. The CIA has even placed agents on guard at the wire services, to prevent inconvenient facts from being disseminated.

In 1977, famed Watergate journalist Carl Bernstein revealed that over 400 US journalists had been employed by the CIA. These ranged from freelancers who were paid for regular debriefings, to actual CIA officers who worked under deep cover. Nearly every major US news organization has had spooks on the payroll, usually with the cooperation of top management.

The three most valuable media assets the CIA could count on were William Paley's CBS, Arthur Sulzberger's New York Times and Henry Luce's Time/Life empire. All three bent over backwards promoting the picture of Oswald as a lone nut in the JFK assassination.

Among prominent journalists who've worked knowingly with the CIA are National Review founder William F. Buckley, PBS interviewer Bill Moyers, the late columnist Stewart Alsop, former Washington Post editor Ben Bradlee and Ms. magazine founder Gloria Steinem.

Bernstein's landmark article on the CIA and the media told of the agency's frantic efforts to limit Congressional inquiry into the matter, with claims that "some of the biggest names in journalism could get smeared." And while the CIA director at the time, George Bush, made a not-too-convincing show of discontinuing the agency's manipulation of the media, it's clear that the CIA regards the space between your ears as one of its most important battlefields.

http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/CIA%20Hits/Wurlitzer_CIAHits.html

Dec 26, 1977 NY Times article: CIA Cable

CIA Cable, that had just been declassified, sought to discredit critics of the Warren Commission.

http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive/pdf?res=F30F13F83F5E167493C4AB1789D95F438785F9

CIA influence on public opinion - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

CIA influence on public opinion - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The CIA and the Media, Carl Bernstein

Carl Bernstein, 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

9/11 Media Blackout

Environmentalists Against War:

Pentagon Papers Whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg Says Government Ordered Media Blackout on 9/11 Questions

"It is not just the corporate media. I have had the owners of highly-regarded alternative media companies confide in me privately that they don't believe the government's version of 9/11, but that are scared of discussing it publicly because they don't want to be tarred-and-feathered for discussing "conspiracy theories."

"Even writers like Glenn Greenwald -- who are good on so many issues -- won't touch it.

"Of course -- as Ellsberg points out -- "Secrets can be kept reliably ... for decades ... even though they are known to thousands of insiders." Indeed, the whole label "conspiracy theory" is just an attempt to diffuse criticism of the powerful.

People used to understand this. As the quintessential American writer Mark Twain said in a more rational age:
'A conspiracy is nothing but a secret agreement of a number of men for the pursuance of policies, which they dare not admit in public.'"