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The "media ecosystem" has never been "pure." But its corruption has been intensified by media organs valorizing, amplifying, and employing huge numbers of intelligence officials since 2016 -- enabling them to shape public opinion on an unprecedented scale
In the age of Twitter/podcasts, these officials take the quasi-journalistic authority that has been ascribed to them by media outlets, and leverage it into large personal platforms -- enabling them to shape public opinion. Exactly what the CIA has been trying to do for decades
Pre-Trump, there would have been a lot more concern about the insidious implications of this trend. But many of these intelligence officials have an aggressively "anti-Trump" point of view, so the media doesn't just overlook the obvious corruption -- they actively facilitate it
So yeah, I object to the unprecedented co-optation of the American media ecosystem by security state officials, and will continue pointing out the danger of this, even when such officials like John Sipher tweet tendentious things about me
