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CNN Exposed: Paid by Foreign & Domestic Govt Agencies For Specific Content
- doubt_me 13y agoWait just a second... Her interview with alex jones is a year old
- brokenparser 13y agoAnd the article is almost 2 months old.
- hawkharris 13y agoCorporations often shape the news as well. When I was in college, studying public relations, several of my professors estimated (based on industry experience working with major networks like CNN) that 40% of news stories originate from PR offices. In other words, PR people provide the newscasters with detailed pitches or even entire segments. I don't think this is always a bad thing, but it's something to be aware of as a consumer of media.
- ballard 13y agoGreat claims require greater proof. Is it possible to get some more 1st-hand details and interviews to support these claims?
- icementhols 13y agoMakes you wonder which other news outlets are in the pay of the governments. BBC?
- mooism2 13y agoThe BBC is in the pay of a major government, yes (funded mostly from taxation), although it seems swayed by the domestic political class as a whole and not merely by the government of the day.
- brymaster 13y agoThis sounds familiar. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Mockingbird http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Mockingbird
- NateDad 13y agoIf she's such a great investigative journalist, where's her proof?
- ethanazir 13y agoIs it still news that Anderson Cooper was concurrently CIA/CNN. Is that any different?