Businesses that report on scarce occurrences of interest to the public, such as elections, airplane crashes, stock market fluctuations and sporting events. It is generally a term used to refer to methods of communicating to the general public, whether the communicated information is factual or opinion-based. Common media include newspapers, TV and radio. The U.S. media landscape is dominated by massive corporations that, through a history of mergers and acquisitions, have concentrated their control over what we see, hear and read. In many cases, these giant companies are vertically integrated, controlling everything from initial production to final distribution; the concentration of media ownership isn’t just a problem in the U.S. it’s happening worldwide.
The media has expended to include various sources of alternative media including websites and blogs, YouTube channels, etc. The freedom of press is an important antidote to government corruption and other shenanigans, but this freedom can also be abused. It only takes a small amount of misreporting by the media to create a myth that will require years to rectify.
The Media Research Center released a study in 2008 reporting pro-atheism bias by major press outlets in the U.S. The study found that 80% of mainstream media coverage of atheism was positive and that 71% of Christian-themed stories had an atheist counterpoint or were written from an atheist perspective. The study is not surprising given the liberal bias that commonly exists in the major media outlets.1
Experts say only 49 people died during the Chernobyl explosion. Others closer to the disaster put the number at a devastating 150,000. In a new book, Kate Brown goes behind the scenes and discovers widespread cover-ups At 01:23:48 on 26 April, 1986, 17 employees of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant were on shift. To carry out a routine experiment, they turned off Reactor No 4’s emergency ...
Attorney General and prosecutor for England during the Nuremberg trials, Sir Hartley Shawcross, allegedly said in a speech at Stourbridge, March 16, 1984: "Step by step, I have arrived at the conviction that the aims of communism in Europe are sinister and fatal. At the Nuremberg Trials, I, together with my Russian colleagues condemned Nazi Aggression and Terror. I believe now that Hitler and the German ...
The Grenadian leader, Maurice Bishop was deposed and executed on October 19, 1983. Six days later the US invaded, with the proffered reason that the American medical students studying in the Grenada were in danger due the Cuban presence. The CIA installed a new leader supported by the US. The following is from Canadian author Richard Sanders first published in May 2002, prior to the onslaught of ...
James Bamford, having gathered extensive information on the NSA, wrote the "The Puzzle Palace", a nickname for the agency, and it was published on September 19, 1982. Before the book's publication, the Reagan administration claimed that unclassified source documents were released to Bamford in error, and threatened him with prosecution if he did not return 250 pages of documents he had obtained through Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) ...
“We’ll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false.” William Casey, CIA Director 1981-1987 Did William Casey really say this? There has been debate as to whether he actually did. If there is proof he did say this, it should ring alarm bells for everybody. So alarm bells should now be ringing. The allegation that the quote is unreliable due to the ...
Watergate reporter Carl Bernstein, himself a government paid insider, wrote: More than 400 American journalists … in the past twenty-five years have secretly carried out assignments for the Central Intelligence Agency, according to documents on file at CIA headquarters.... In many instances, CIA documents show, journalists were engaged to perform tasks for the CIA with the consent of the managements of America’s leading news organizations. Among the executives ...
The Central Intelligence Agency conducted a 14‐year program to find ways to “control human behavior” through the use of chemical, biological and radiological material, according to agency documents made public today by John Marks, a freelance journalist. Mr. Marks, an associate of the Center for National Security Studies, asserted at a news conference that Adm. Stansfield Turner, Director of Central Intelligence, in a letter to the ...
Congressman Larry P. McDonald, who spearheaded efforts against the New World Order, wrote the introduction to The Rockefeller File which stated: "Dear Reader: The super rich in America enjoy power and prerogatives un-imaginable to most of us. Who can conceive of owning a private empire that includes 100 homes, 2,500 servants, untold thousands of luxuries, and untold millions of dollars? America has a royal family of ...
Philip Agee worked as a case officer for the United States Central Intelligence Agency from 1957 to 1968. In 1975 he published a book about covert operations in Latin America entitled Inside the Company: CIA Diary in order to inform the public about what the U.S. government was secretly doing on behalf of the American people. "When I was writing my first book, I concluded in ...
During the 1970s the media promoted global cooling alarmism with dire threats of a new ice age. Extreme weather events were hyped as signs of the coming apocalypse and man-made pollution was blamed as the cause. Environmental extremists called for everything from outlawing the internal combustion engine to communist style population controls. This media hype was found in newspapers, magazines, books and on television; News articles*: ...
