Media
manipulation - Misc.
info on
CIA infiltration of academia: cia-on-campus.org
(by PIR)
How
the Washington Post Censors the News—A Letter to the Washington
Post (Julian C. Holmes, 1992)
A still-timely essay revealing some of the direct elite interests
at work behind the media's conspiracy phobia. Fascinating insights
on newsroom politics and manipulation.
The Banks own the media:
Disclosure
of Corporate Ownership of the Broadcast Industry—By 1972
A hand full of International Banks Highly Interlocked with the
Oil and Defense Industries had Illegally Usurped Corporate Control
of the Broadcast Industry. (US Senate Committe on Govt. Operations,
1974) Look at how bad it was nearly three decades ago—the
elite's monopoly control of the press has only gotten worse since
then.
Don
Hazen's sleaze (SF Bay Guardian)
THE INDEPENDENT MEDIA Institute, the San Francisco-based group
that runs a news syndication service for the alternative press,
has become embroiled in yet another serious ethical conflict that
demonstrates the fundamental problems with foundation funding
of media and political groups.
"Alternative"
media paymasters: Carlyle, Alcoa, Xerox, Coca Cola...?
(Brian Salter, 29 Sep 2002) A closer look at the Ford
Foundation Board of Trustees...
The
Ford Foundation and the CIA: A documented case of philanthropic
collaboration with the Secret Police
(James Petras, 15 Dec 2001)
Philanthropists
at War (Daniel Brandt, 1996)
Analysis of nearly a century's worth of infiltration and control
of dissenting media and political groups by the establishment
elites, going back to 1914, with much detail on the activities
of the big foundations — Ford, Carnegie, Rockefeller.
The
CIA and the Cultural Cold War Revisited (Review
by James Petras, Nov 1999)
How the CIA used "philanthropic" foundations like Ford
and Rockefeller to influence and control American intellectuals,
journalists, artists, and culture during the Cold War. The CIA
used this influence to create a new establishment-friendly "Democratic
Left" to overshadow the radical Left, who posed a threat
to the Cold War agenda and weren't going to go along with official
efforts to fabricate and drum up Cold War fear and paranoia. (Has
this process been repeated, creating a watered-down Left that
has refused to challenge the new officially fabricated threat
used to propel the "War on Terror"?)
Oil
and "conspiracy theories": a reply to a liberal apologist
for the US war in Afghanistan, Part two (Patrick
Martin, 21 September 2002)
note: the original article in question was also discussed here
earlier, along with some revealing information provided by Bob
Feldman about reporter Ken Silverstein. See bottom paragraphs
at Central Asia,
the US, and OIL—Round Two!