Reading through Inventing Reality. It's really eye-openeing even at 30% through. For example, the state essentially controls the big media apparatus. The FBI outright owns several news and publishing companies and the CIA has minimum hundreds of people on their payroll in all the big channels and papers. And this book was written in 1986, so it's guaranteed to be even more tightly controlled now. Knowing this, it's clear why bernie blindness is a thing. You could probably hand this book to any bernie bro and every single thing will start to click into place for them.
Also, I'm young-ish so i wasn't around before the Fairness Doctrine in reporting - it basically required all viewpoints to be allowed to air on TV and time for alternatives. But even then, of course, no communists were ever on air. (But we have nazis on TV now, so fun!) So even at our most liberal, we've never truly had a free press. At least, not in a long time. So it's like, at what point how is that any different than just having a state media. And it's a step worse than that, because it's not even labeled as being reported as state news.
The FBI outright owns several news and publishing companies and the CIA has minimum hundreds of people on their payroll in all the big channels and papers.
Reading through Inventing Reality. It's really eye-openeing even at 30% through. For example, the state essentially controls the big media apparatus. The FBI outright owns several news and publishing companies and the CIA has minimum hundreds of people on their payroll in all the big channels and papers. And this book was written in 1986, so it's guaranteed to be even more tightly controlled now. Knowing this, it's clear why bernie blindness is a thing. You could probably hand this book to any bernie bro and every single thing will start to click into place for them.
Also, I'm young-ish so i wasn't around before the Fairness Doctrine in reporting - it basically required all viewpoints to be allowed to air on TV and time for alternatives. But even then, of course, no communists were ever on air. (But we have nazis on TV now, so fun!) So even at our most liberal, we've never truly had a free press. At least, not in a long time. So it's like, at what point how is that any different than just having a state media. And it's a step worse than that, because it's not even labeled as being reported as state news.
Source for that?
don't have time to find the source in the book, but i think it was referencing this article
https://www.nytimes.com/1977/12/26/archives/worldwide-propaganda-network-built-by-the-cia-a-worldwide-network.html