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American Corporate MSM Is Merged With CIA And Has Been Since 1950s

Interesting article, providing detailed history of Mockingbird-like operations:

popularresistance.org/american-corpo…

Also provides some info who some CIA connected media players might be.
2/ Do not take at face value, but interesting nonetheless.

>Fox News’ Bret Baier gave an address about the importance of charity in 2008 (which was reported at the time), and the then-ombudsmen for NPR, TheWashington Post, and The New York Times (Jeffrey Dvorkin, Michael…
3/ …Getler and Daniel Okrent, respectively), appeared together on a CIA panel. The event description said that journalism “shares some of the same missions that intelligence analysts have—presenting information in an unbiased fashion and challenging prevailing opinions.”
4/ The ombudsmen, the invitation said, could help the CIA “see how journalists deal with some of our common professional and ethical difficulties.” (It’s not clear from the documents when the ombudsmen event was held, but it would have been in 2009 or before.)
5/ In 2008, the then-ombudsmen for NPR, Jeffrey Dvorkin, The Washington Post, Michael Getler, and The New York Times, Daniel Okrent, appeared together on a CIA panel
6/ >In 2007, Juan Williams, then at NPR in addition to his role at Fox News, gave a “standing-room-only” speech sponsored by the agency’s Office of Diversity Plans and Programs.
7/ During his speech Williams praised CIA personnel as “the best and brightest,” and said Americans admired the agency and trusted it “to guide the nation and the nation’s future.”

Juan Williams, the die-hard leftist on 'The Five' on Fox, praising the CIA in 2007/
8/ >Also in 2007, revered journalist John Pilger gave a speech to the Socialism 2007 Conference describing how propaganda has become such an important and ubiquitous factor in our lives. He said,
9/ >We now know that the BBC and other British media were used by the British secret intelligence service MI-6.
10/ In what they called Operation Mass Appeal, MI-6 agents planted stories about Saddam’s weapons of mass destruction, such as weapons hidden in his palaces and in secret underground bunkers. All of these stories were fake.
11/ MI6 Operation Mass Appeal regarding Sadam Hussein's "WMDs"
12/ >The “Zarqawi letter” which made it on to the front page of The New York Times in February 2004 was one of a sequence of highly suspect documents which were said to have been written either by or to Zarqawi and which were fed into news media.
13/ "Zarqawi letter" in 2004 was mockingbird fake news?

>As Zbigniew Brzezinski once said, “Shortly, the public will be unable to reason or think for themselves. They’ll only be able to parrot the information they’ve been given on the previous night’s news.”
14/ Mika Brzezinski definitely a farm born media asset
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