Tags: Government Propaganda, Mainstream Media Propaganda

Conspiracy theory? I think not, especially now that the New York Times has admitted most mainstream media outlets voluntarily get approval and heavily edited quotes from the Whitehouse before publishing them. In his article entitled “Latest Word on the Trail? I Take It Back“, NYT journalist Jeremy W. Peters writes:

They are sent by e-mail from the Obama headquarters in Chicago to reporters who have interviewed campaign officials under one major condition: the press office has veto power over what statements can be quoted and attributed by name.

Most reporters, desperate to pick the brains of the president’s top strategists, grudgingly agree. After the interviews, they review their notes, check their tape recorders and send in the juiciest sound bites for review.

The verdict from the campaign — an operation that prides itself on staying consistently on script — is often no, Barack Obama does not approve this message.

The push and pull over what is on the record is one of journalism’s perennial battles. But those negotiations typically took place case by case, free from the red pens of press minders. Now, with a millisecond Twitter news cycle and an unforgiving, gaffe-obsessed media culture, politicians and their advisers are routinely demanding that reporters allow them final editing power over any published quotations.

That’s right, folks, governments only give quotes to media outlets that agree to publish sanitized versions of quotes and stories, and the media outlets go along with it rather than publish the truth.

This has been obvious to alternative media pundits and independent journalists for decades, and to myself for a number of years. But for the general public who has been programmed to only give credibility to the big dogs like the New York Times and others while calling the alternative press a bunch of crazy conspiracy theorists every time we mention that the government controls the media, well, the article linked above is your credible proof that you’ve been duped all along.

I first found out about this NYT article at an alternative news site called Infowars.com, who republished an article from another alternative site called EndOfTheAmericanDream.com. The authors and readers of both those sites have endured relentless attacks from the mainstream media and their readers for years. But hey, guess who you should have been reading all along if you wanted to know the truth?

And I highly recommend you read the original article at either of the links provided in the paragraph above. Yeah, the bulk of the media in the US, and in the Western World in general for that matter, is controlled by a handful of huge companies. Research those companies and find out where their political campaign contributions and other investments go, who their main advertisers are, etc.

Follow the money and you’ll find out who is really shaping public perception in this f**ked up world we live in.

By Paul Short on 24/07/2012

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