The military and the corporate news media
Pro war all the time
CNN leads the way
The movie “Spin” – which is over 25 years old and which we’ve featured on Brasscheck TV several times – touched on this story way back then.
The fact is that the military’s “influence” on the news has been going on for a long time.
George Seldes, one of the most important investigative journalists in American history, relates how he was threatened with military execution for reporting the news about World War I.
The military has gotten more subtle I guess.