The Intel-Journo Alliance

Consortium News by Robert Parry | Jun. 2, 2009 (Opinion)

The neocons understood that intimidating CIA analysts and Washington journalists would clear the way for the key neocon goals: a more aggressive foreign policy and more spending on military budgets, some of which would get recycled into neocon think tanks and media outlets.

So, through the 1980s, the neocons spearheaded an assault on the CIA’s analytical division by pushing a politicization of intelligence that reversed the tradition of giving ... Full Story »

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 by Dwight Rousu - Jun. 3, 2009

The points on the timidity and careerism of the corporate media are coherent. The article detours into the fund-raising necessity for supporting independent media.

The neocons even had a phrase for this process of controlling what the American people got to hear, see and believe. It was called “perception management.”

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