Dr. Udo Ulfkotte speaks from personal experience on how the intelligence agencies plant stories in the media; how they alter reporter attitudes to be pro-West and anti-Russian by subtle bribes, pressures and emoluments; how the U.S. colonizes foreign intelligence agencies, the armed forces and the media of other countries; how journalists are turned into unofficial spies; and the sanctions faced by those who refuse to cooperate. Ulfkotte was a journalist for a major German newspaper. See also here for the original blog. (Thanks to David Krall.)
The U.S. does not have totalitarian control and censorship. No party or government has total control of all forms of communication. Such control is anti-American, being clearly inconsistent with free speech. This does not mean there is no social-political problem centering on the media and communications. There are some very large problems. The CIA has created methods of soft control that are every bit as anti-American as would be outright censorship. They may even be more devastating than harder control because the public is deceived into thinking it’s getting straight information when it is not.
4:07 pm on October 9, 2014
