"Chuck Stamford" <shell__stamford@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote
> ....your allegation that all media in America is censored by the
government
> and dominated by far right-wing
Is quite true at the current time... as has been mildly the case for 70
years.
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"Perhaps no newspaper is more im****tant to the CIA than
the Wa****ngton Post, one of the nation’s most right-wing
dailies. Its location in the nation’s capitol enables the paper
to maintain valuable personal contacts with leading intelligence,
political and business figures. Unlike other newspapers, the
Post operates its own bureaus around the world, rather than
relying on AP wire services. Owner Philip Graham was a
military intelligence officer in World War II, and later became
close friends with CIA figures like Frank Wisner, Allen Dulles,
Desmond FitzGerald and Richard Helms. He inherited the
Post by marrying Katherine Graham, whose father owned it.
After Philip’s suicide in 1963, Katharine Graham took over the
Post. Seduced by her husband’s world of government and
espionage, she expanded her newspaper’s relation****p with the
CIA.
In a 1988 speech before CIA officials at Langley, Virginia, she
stated:
"We live in a dirty and dangerous world. There are some
things that the general public does not need to know and
shouldn’t. I believe democracy flourishes when the
government
can take legitimate steps to keep its secrets and when the
press
can decide whether to print what it knows."
This quote has since become a classic among CIA critics
for its belittlement of democracy and its admission that there
is a political agenda behind the Post’s headlines.
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