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Media has been fully untrustworthy since Operation Mockingbird.

• barbacoa 6y ago
  Operation mockingbird never ended. https://theintercept.com/2014/09/04/former-l-times-reporter-cleared-stories-cia-publication/ https://theintercept.com/2014/09/04/former-l-times-reporter-...
  • ineedasername 6y ago
    That article makes it look simply like journalists doing normal cultivation of sources and due diligence by runningg things by a major source as a secondary form of double checking their reporting. If I was a national security reporter I'd certainly tap contacts in the government to at least run things by them as part of my process, albeit with a a fair few grains if salt taken with anything they say.
    • Judgmentality 6y ago
      Yeah, I went into the article expecting some damning link where the CIA has been planting questionable information into major media pieces, instead it just sorta seemed like a handful of journalists being somewhat sloppy in talking to the CIA. There didn't seem to be any real substance to it.