Thread by @AlanRMacLeod

Thread: My new @MintPressNews investigation into King's College London's Department of War Studies and how the notorious spy school is churning out many of the world's most influential journalists.

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Last month, CNN Jerusalem Bureau Chief Andrew Carey sent a message to staffers to always remind readers that Palestinian health facilities are run by Hamas, almost legitimizing them as a target.

Carey is 1 of dozens of influential journos who graduated from the War Studies dept.

The Dept. of War Studies is already infamous for churning out intelligence agents for various 3-letter agencies.

But it also produces another, more troubling product: journalists.

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Many influential journalists at the New York Times, CNN, the BBC and Reuters were trained at this infamous department, raising questions about the relationship between the 4th estate and the national security state.

We've already got CNN White House Correspondents who are so credulous of power they say things like this ⬇️

We don't need them being trained by and alongside spooks as well as naively taking everything the nat sec state says to be gospel.

I'm not specifically accusing journalists of being CIA plants or anything. But when the same people in the same department are training both the world's top spies and the world's top journalists, there is a massive, gaping problem there.