peer review.

Revolutionary91 said:
Why do you think the former head of the CIA said that the CIA owns the major media? Do you think he said that for $%^&s and giggles?
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Assume what you say is true, which I doubt...

All the major media? Including the ones in foriegn countries? Even those not friendly to us? The CIA controls the Arabic media?

Wow! Who knew we taxpayers were actually getting our money's worth out of the CIA!?
 
T.A.M. said:
1. Which former head are you referring to, and where is your source for this?
2. So are you now saying the CIA was part of your alleged 9/11 cover-up? (yes or no please).

TAM:)
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Here is the quote I was referring to, along with some others:

"The Central Intelligence Agency owns everyone of any significance in the major media."
--William Colby, former CIA Director, quoted by Dave Mcgowan, Derailing Democracy
"You could get a journalist cheaper than a good call girl, for a couple hundred dollars a month."
--CIA operative, discussing the availability and prices of journalists willing to peddle CIA propaganda and cover stories. Katherine the Great, by Deborah Davis
"There is quite an incredible spread of relationships. You don’t need to manipulate Time magazine, for example, because there are [Central Intelligence] Agency people at the management level."
--William B. Bader, former CIA intelligence officer, briefing members of the Senate Intelligence Committee. The CIA and the Media, by Carl Bernstein
"Senator William Proxmire has pegged the number of employees of the federal intelligence community at 148,000 ... though Proxmire's number is itself a conservative one. The "intelligence community" is officially defined as including only those organizations that are members of the U.S. Intelligence Board (USIB); a dozen other agencies, charged with both foreign and domestic intelligence chores, are not encompassed by the term.... The number of intelligence workers employed by the federal government is not 148,000, but some undetermined multiple of that number."
--Jim Hougan, Spooks​
"For some time I have been disturbed by the way the CIA has been diverted from its original assignment. It has become an operational and at times a policy-making arm of the government.... I never had any thought that when I set up the CIA that it would be injected into peacetime cloak and dagger operations."
--former President Harry Truman, in a letter to the Washington Post, one month after the JFK assassination, December 21, 1963​
 
Revolutionary91 said:
Here is the quote I was referring to, along with some others:

"The Central Intelligence Agency owns everyone of any significance in the major media."
--William Colby, former CIA Director, quoted by Dave Mcgowan, Derailing Democracy
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You do know when he was CIA director right???

Revolutionary91 said:
"You could get a journalist cheaper than a good call girl, for a couple hundred dollars a month."
--CIA operative, discussing the availability and prices of journalists willing to peddle CIA propaganda and cover stories. Katherine the Great, by Deborah Davis
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Book written in 1979, and was referring even then to the CIA of yesteryear.

Revolutionary91 said:
"There is quite an incredible spread of relationships. You don’t need to manipulate Time magazine, for example, because there are [Central Intelligence] Agency people at the management level."
--William B. Bader, former CIA intelligence officer, briefing members of the Senate Intelligence Committee. The CIA and the Media, by Carl Bernstein
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written in 1977, talking about the CIA of the 1950s and 1960s


"Senator William Proxmire has pegged the number of employees of the federal intelligence community at 148,000 ... though Proxmire's number is itself a conservative one. The "intelligence community" is officially defined as including only those organizations that are members of the U.S. Intelligence Board (USIB); a dozen other agencies, charged with both foreign and domestic intelligence chores, are not encompassed by the term.... The number of intelligence workers employed by the federal government is not 148,000, but some undetermined multiple of that number."
--Jim Hougan, Spooks​
"For some time I have been disturbed by the way the CIA has been diverted from its original assignment. It has become an operational and at times a policy-making arm of the government.... I never had any thought that when I set up the CIA that it would be injected into peacetime cloak and dagger operations."
--former President Harry Truman, in a letter to the Washington Post, one month after the JFK assassination, December 21, 1963​
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I am not addressing the rest, as they all come from someone elses site, which you ripped off and did not link to...bad form.


Is this your site, or are you just ripping off the quotes there Rev?

http://mtracy9.tripod.com/cia_media.htm

TAM:)
 
Are you really this poor a researcher that you would try to convince us that the modern CIA has control of present day MSM, by posting a bunch of quotes concerning the CIA back in the 1950's to 1970's....man I hope your research for school projects is better than this.

TAM:)
 
T.A.M. said:
Are you really this poor a researcher that you would try to convince us that the modern CIA has control of present day MSM, by posting a bunch of quotes concerning the CIA back in the 1950's to 1970's....man I hope your research for school projects is better than this.

TAM:)
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Oh dear, I foolishly thought we could have a discussion. Back to ignore you go.

BTW, does your dad know that you have sent his details to lisa?
 
My dad has been dead for 19 years now Rev.

As for putting me on ignore, well that is the biggest retreat I have ever seen.

You simply copy and pasted quotes from another website, without posting a link to where you got it from, which is considered very poor form, and may actually be in violation of the rules here.

Not to mention, your quotes about the CIA were about the CIA in the 1950's and 1960's...what sort of relavence could this have 40-50 years later.

TAM:)
 
TerryUK said:
Hi realcddeal - You are toying with these guys!

I admire your patience!
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Well rather than waste our time with introductions, just post your CT nonsense here and lets have at it Terry.

TAM:)
 
T.A.M. said:
My dad has been dead for 19 years now Rev.

As for putting me on ignore, well that is the biggest retreat I have ever seen.

You simply copy and pasted quotes from another website, without posting a link to where you got it from, which is considered very poor form, and may actually be in violation of the rules here.

Not to mention, your quotes about the CIA were about the CIA in the 1950's and 1960's...what sort of relavence could this have 40-50 years later.

TAM:)
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You are being dishonest. Colby was director in the 70's and he said "owns". Present tense. Can you give me any evidence it has changed since the 70's?
 
ummm....well I would hope the CIA has changed in 30 years Rev. If not, it would be pretty outdated...wouldn't it?

MSM certainly has changed. In the 70's, there was barely standard Cable, let alone the many many cable news networks we have today, plus the websites these networks have on the internet, plus reputable internet news sites...

Do you really, honestly, expect anyone besides your fellow CTers to give this any credibility. Have you looked at the era MOST of your quotes are referring to...wait I mean someone elses quotes, as you posted them here without giving them credit.

He was director from 1973 to 1976...That was 31-34 years ago.

TAM:)
 
well in that case, how do you know any of your investigoogling is providing you with truthful links and sites???

lol

Come on, I am not denying that the CIA, and major corps do not have "influence" on the media, but that is a FAR CRY from stating that the CIA RUNS THE MEDIA, which is what you were contending.

TAM:)
 
I never contended that they run the media. You claimed that you werent buying that a story could be suppressed and the media be prevented from reporting it.
 
Funny how Steele, with this great story, decides to break it on...wait for it....The Alex Jones Show...

TAM:)
 
Revolutionary91 said:
I never contended that they run the media. You claimed that you werent buying that a story could be suppressed and the media be prevented from reporting it.
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Given the size and scope of todays multi arena MSM, you would have to effectively RUN it, in order to supress such a huge, earth shattering story, as the 9/11 attack cover up.

TAM:)
 
Revolutionary91 said:
Why do you think the former head of the CIA said that the CIA owns the major media? Do you think he said that for $%^&s and giggles?
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This was your original quote. bolded by me for your reference.

So are you retracting your insinuation that the CIA OWNS Major Media?

TAM:)
 
T.A.M. said:
Given the size and scope of todays multi arena MSM, you would have to effectively RUN it, in order to supress such a huge, earth shattering story, as the 9/11 attack cover up.

TAM:)
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It isn't being suppressed. It is all over the media. That is why the polls show such suspicion in the population.
 
Rev91, the CIA, like all western intelligence agencies, recruited journalists as assets during the Cold War. It wasn't sinister, it was just that journalists would get posted overseas in less than friendly countries and could be useful for low level intel gathering. They did the same thing with business people who travelled and worked overseas. A mixture of patriotic duty, a chance to imagine themselves being james bond, and a bit of extra cash.

If an intelligence head or operative makes a claim about having assets within the media then that is precisely the scenario they are describing. It's not a covert program to control the worlds media through the placement of intel operatives. If that were the case then all the bad news about the CIA or MI5/MI6 would never be in the public domain. No secret rendition flights or prisoner torture at abu ghraib. No watergate for gods sake.

The worst accusation which can be levelled at the modern media is the commercial imperative to break news, which then leads to the plethora of inaccurate reporting we saw on 911 because every station and every journalist wants to be the one with the scoop. This leads them to report rumour instead of fact.

Now, why do you trust the 'truth' movement?
 
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