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You never said that. Please don't redirect. You made an assertion. Back it up.

• foobarqux 13y ago
  Again, which assertion? That the government doesn't like Snowden being cast in a favorable light or that it uses mechanisms to deter people from doing so? A good place to start for the latter is chapter 1.3 of "Manufacturing Consent" http://www.scribd.com/doc/190262164/Manufacturing-consent http://www.scribd.com/doc/190262164/Manufacturing-consent
  • foobarqux 13y ago
    And here is quote from Pilger describing a specific admission of media manipulation by a major government: [A former British official] described how the Foreign Office manipulated a willing media. "We would control access to the foreign secretary as a form of reward to journalists. If they were critical, we would not give them the goodies of trips around the world. We would feed them factoids of sanitised intelligence, or we'd freeze them out."