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We are the Media
- 6-10-2008
- Categorized in: Media
As an independent journalist who has worked primarily in radio every day for the last 12 years, who has worked in the mediums of print, TV, and various forms of communication for the last 28 years, I am honored to address the public at large and the distinguished readers of "RESTORE THE REPUBLIC" on the issues of today's media, and how we all fit in as the new media for a new generation.
The Good News - No News is Not Good News
With the major newspapers and network news scrambling to salvage their once great empires, and near total control of all public opinion, the day of the media baron is OVER. So said Baron Von Murdoch, as he diversified his News Corp. holdings into Internet news and social networking sites, proclaiming the death of traditional media.
Mayer Amschel Bauer (patriarch of the Rothschild banking dynasty) was once asked if there was anything that he was afraid of. He answered not women, nor gambling nor vice, but innovation and innovators is what he truly felt could be his downfall. Ideas are bulletproof and information can change our world. Super Global elites like the Rothschilds made sure that they controlled the way we get information, and managed intellectual property. (This is true with the current debate over copyright issues on YouTube et. al., which is a backdoor effort to stop YOU from entering and surviving in the infowar.)
We stand at the dawn of technological media innovation, and the leveling of the playing field. Never before have we the people been so empowered and so motivated to correct the record and enter in to, if not control the public debate.
The DIY generation met Generation YouTube, and the rest, as they say, is history.
But it wasn't always this way. It is important to realize what we have overcome, and essential to see where we are going and how to get there. To understand where we are we should digest where we came from.
Government Control of the Press/Public Opinion
"Congress shall make no law...abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press." - First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution
"The basis of our government being the opinion of the people, the very first object should be to keep that right; and were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter." - Thomas Jefferson, on the necessity of a fee press (1787)
"Our job is to give people not what they want, but what WE decide they ought to have." - Richard Salent, Former President CBS News.
"News is what someone wants to suppress. Everything else is advertising." - Rubin Frank, Former President of NBC News
Asked to give a toast before the prestigious New York Press Club in 1880, John Swinton, the former chief of staff at the New York Times, made this candid confession (it's worth nothing that Swinton was called "The Dean of His Profession" by other newsmen, who admired him greatly):
"There is no such thing, at this date of the world's history, as an independent press. You know it and I know it. There is not one of you who dares to write your honest opinions, and if you did, you know beforehand that it would never appear in print. I am paid weekly for keeping my honest opinions out of the paper I am connected with. Others of you are paid similar salaries for similar things, and any of you who would be so foolish as to write honest opinions would be out on the streets looking for another job."
"If I allowed my honest opinions to appear in one issue of my paper, before 24 hours my occupation would be gone. The business of the journalist is to destroy the truth; to lie outright; to pervert; to vilify; to fawn at the feet of Mammon, and to sell the country for his daily bread. You know it and I know it and what folly is this toasting an independent press. We are the tools and vassals of the rich men behind the scenes. We are the jumping jacks, they pull the strings and we dance. Our talents, our possibilities and our lives are all the property of other men. We are intellectual prostitutes."
Operation Mockingbird was a Central Intelligence Agency operation to influence domestic and foreign media, whose activities were made public during the Church Committee investigation in 1975 (published 1976).
In 1977, Rolling Stone alleged that one of the most important journalists under the control of Operation Mockingbird was Joseph Alsop, whose articles appeared in over 300 different newspapers. Other journalists alleged by Rolling Stone Magazine to have been willing to promote the views of the CIA included Stewart Alsop (New York Herald Tribune), Ben Bradlee (Newsweek), James Reston (New York Times), Charles Douglas Jackson (Time Magazine), Walter Pincus (Washington Post), William C. Baggs (The Miami News), Herb Gold (The Miami News) and Charles Bartlett (Chattanooga Times).
According to Nina Burleigh (A Very Private Woman), those journalists sometimes wrote articles that were commissioned by Frank Wisner. The CIA also provided them with classified information to help them with their work.
After 1953, the network was overseen by Allen W. Dulles, director of the Central Intelligence Agency. By this time Operation Mockingbird had a major influence over 25 newspapers and wire agencies. (Wire agencies being very important as most local news organizations simply repeat what is posted on the wires. This is why I call them "repeaters" rather than reporters!)
These organizations were run by people with well-known "right wing" views such as William Paley (CBS-Westinghouse), Henry Luce (Skull and Bones-Time Magazine and Life Magazine), Arthur Hays Sulzberger (New York Times), Alfred Friendly (managing editor of the Washington Post), Jerry O'Leary (Washington Star), Hal Hendrix (Miami News), Barry Bingham Sr., (Louisville Courier-Journal), James Copley (Copley News Services) and Joseph Harrison (Christian Science Monitor). While covert infiltration and a cabal like fanaticism for the socialist principles enshrined in the "Great Work" (IE: One World Order) by media controllers are not necessarily new, some of the strategies employed are.
In David Robb's book, "Operation Hollywood-How the Pentagon Shapes and Censors the Movies," we see documented proof and eyewitness reports of direct control and censorship in American films and TV.
During his years as a journalist for Daily Variety and The Hollywood Reporter, Robb heard about a quid-pro-quo agreement between the Pentagon and Hollywood studios, and decided to investigate. He combed through thousands of Pentagon documents, and interviewed dozens of screenwriters, producers and military officials...and found evidence of massive censorship by the government of Hollywood films.
(I interviewed David Robb on DEADLINE LIVE in 2006. It's in my archives at www.gcnlive.com)
But this isn't just about selling war and shipping up patriotism. It is largely about social engineering, and the dumbing down of the viewer, the listener, and the reader.
The Good News - No News is Not Good News
With the major newspapers and network news scrambling to salvage their once great empires, and near total control of all public opinion, the day of the media baron is OVER. So said Baron Von Murdoch, as he diversified his News Corp. holdings into Internet news and social networking sites, proclaiming the death of traditional media.
Mayer Amschel Bauer (patriarch of the Rothschild banking dynasty) was once asked if there was anything that he was afraid of. He answered not women, nor gambling nor vice, but innovation and innovators is what he truly felt could be his downfall. Ideas are bulletproof and information can change our world. Super Global elites like the Rothschilds made sure that they controlled the way we get information, and managed intellectual property. (This is true with the current debate over copyright issues on YouTube et. al., which is a backdoor effort to stop YOU from entering and surviving in the infowar.)
We stand at the dawn of technological media innovation, and the leveling of the playing field. Never before have we the people been so empowered and so motivated to correct the record and enter in to, if not control the public debate.
The DIY generation met Generation YouTube, and the rest, as they say, is history.
But it wasn't always this way. It is important to realize what we have overcome, and essential to see where we are going and how to get there. To understand where we are we should digest where we came from.
Government Control of the Press/Public Opinion
"Congress shall make no law...abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press." - First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution
"The basis of our government being the opinion of the people, the very first object should be to keep that right; and were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter." - Thomas Jefferson, on the necessity of a fee press (1787)
"Our job is to give people not what they want, but what WE decide they ought to have." - Richard Salent, Former President CBS News.
"News is what someone wants to suppress. Everything else is advertising." - Rubin Frank, Former President of NBC News
Asked to give a toast before the prestigious New York Press Club in 1880, John Swinton, the former chief of staff at the New York Times, made this candid confession (it's worth nothing that Swinton was called "The Dean of His Profession" by other newsmen, who admired him greatly):
"There is no such thing, at this date of the world's history, as an independent press. You know it and I know it. There is not one of you who dares to write your honest opinions, and if you did, you know beforehand that it would never appear in print. I am paid weekly for keeping my honest opinions out of the paper I am connected with. Others of you are paid similar salaries for similar things, and any of you who would be so foolish as to write honest opinions would be out on the streets looking for another job."
"If I allowed my honest opinions to appear in one issue of my paper, before 24 hours my occupation would be gone. The business of the journalist is to destroy the truth; to lie outright; to pervert; to vilify; to fawn at the feet of Mammon, and to sell the country for his daily bread. You know it and I know it and what folly is this toasting an independent press. We are the tools and vassals of the rich men behind the scenes. We are the jumping jacks, they pull the strings and we dance. Our talents, our possibilities and our lives are all the property of other men. We are intellectual prostitutes."
Operation Mockingbird was a Central Intelligence Agency operation to influence domestic and foreign media, whose activities were made public during the Church Committee investigation in 1975 (published 1976).
In 1977, Rolling Stone alleged that one of the most important journalists under the control of Operation Mockingbird was Joseph Alsop, whose articles appeared in over 300 different newspapers. Other journalists alleged by Rolling Stone Magazine to have been willing to promote the views of the CIA included Stewart Alsop (New York Herald Tribune), Ben Bradlee (Newsweek), James Reston (New York Times), Charles Douglas Jackson (Time Magazine), Walter Pincus (Washington Post), William C. Baggs (The Miami News), Herb Gold (The Miami News) and Charles Bartlett (Chattanooga Times).
According to Nina Burleigh (A Very Private Woman), those journalists sometimes wrote articles that were commissioned by Frank Wisner. The CIA also provided them with classified information to help them with their work.
After 1953, the network was overseen by Allen W. Dulles, director of the Central Intelligence Agency. By this time Operation Mockingbird had a major influence over 25 newspapers and wire agencies. (Wire agencies being very important as most local news organizations simply repeat what is posted on the wires. This is why I call them "repeaters" rather than reporters!)
These organizations were run by people with well-known "right wing" views such as William Paley (CBS-Westinghouse), Henry Luce (Skull and Bones-Time Magazine and Life Magazine), Arthur Hays Sulzberger (New York Times), Alfred Friendly (managing editor of the Washington Post), Jerry O'Leary (Washington Star), Hal Hendrix (Miami News), Barry Bingham Sr., (Louisville Courier-Journal), James Copley (Copley News Services) and Joseph Harrison (Christian Science Monitor). While covert infiltration and a cabal like fanaticism for the socialist principles enshrined in the "Great Work" (IE: One World Order) by media controllers are not necessarily new, some of the strategies employed are.
In David Robb's book, "Operation Hollywood-How the Pentagon Shapes and Censors the Movies," we see documented proof and eyewitness reports of direct control and censorship in American films and TV.
During his years as a journalist for Daily Variety and The Hollywood Reporter, Robb heard about a quid-pro-quo agreement between the Pentagon and Hollywood studios, and decided to investigate. He combed through thousands of Pentagon documents, and interviewed dozens of screenwriters, producers and military officials...and found evidence of massive censorship by the government of Hollywood films.
(I interviewed David Robb on DEADLINE LIVE in 2006. It's in my archives at www.gcnlive.com)
But this isn't just about selling war and shipping up patriotism. It is largely about social engineering, and the dumbing down of the viewer, the listener, and the reader.
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