@Roy Blakeley
Even the local morning news is tainted.
For instance; My local ABC tv affiliate is showing a street scene from a chopper overhead with a female "reporter" voiceover describing how two kids were struck and killed by a truck. She reports that the kids were in the street when hit and there may not have been sidewalks available to them.
The chopper overhead clearly shows no sidewalks. So I assumed the reporter did not have access to the video footage.
Moments later, they cut to her standing on the scene, with the missing sidewalks clearly revealed behind her, while she reads from her smartphone the rest of her "report".
I see this kind of news all the time. The words being spoken do not match the facts the video is showing.
It's like everything is scripted now. It has to go through channels to.be messaged and approved.
The modern journalist is just a bobblehead programmed to utter words.
Max Headroom come to life.

#5 Most journalists do not cover things that are overly controversial, and many are just trying to get and keep a job. I am noticing that some newspapers are hiring a lot of people right out of college as reporters. My guess is that they are energetic and work cheap.

@leveymg

On the other hand, I was approached for CIA recruitment (which I turned down) by one of the Journalism School's professors.

that is the shit and I believe it. The events of 2016 broadened my perspective by several miles. There have been rumors that some "liberal" websites either harbor or are headed by CIA operatives for the purpose of controlled opposition. In a few cases, highly vocal, prominent people have just up and disappeared from forums. One of these cases involved someone who had been the subject of CIA rumors but who seemed very real to me, and I still worry about them. Another case involved a commenter who had an endless supply of excellent links which made him appear almost super-humanly intelligent, but he pushed Russiagate and TDS to the hilt and was clearly too smart to actually believe that stuff. Then, concurrent with the incident that compromised Seymour Hersh's privacy a couple of years ago, he abruptly dropped off the face of the earth. I wondered if there could have been CIA-linked elements involved in that incident and if this guy may have been CIA.

On the one hand, it's like, what kind of person would choose to be a cheating, lying, backstabbing pos? Otoh, I find myself wondering if the CIA is similar to Scientology in that once you're in, you can't get out, in which case, some of these people may regret their decision and in fact live in fear or at least with a feeling of being trapped.

Without "empire" and power-mongers, there would be no place in the world for CIA, KGB, etc. If our side wins the eventual revolution, we're going to have to clean that shit up and out.

#5 but the reality was quite different. I learned the paradox first hand when I was attending J-school at BU at that time. On the one hand, The Boston Globe published an Op-ed I wrote about why mass civil disobedience at the Seabrook, NH nuclear power plant had been successful because of excessive force used by the cops and National Guard against non-violent protesters. I was a witness and participant at the receiving end of teargas and mace. On the other hand, I was approached for CIA recruitment (which I turned down) by one of the Journalism School's professors.

That myth of reform from within underpinning the larger myth of American Democracy was known then to be a semi-transparent contradiction, but increasingly the Powers That Be don't even bother to sustain appearances. Forty years later, such illusions aren't viewed as effective, so the rhetoric has been largely dispensed with, these days. The elite in all the "professions" that deal with the reality of working under an Oligarchy in an Empire in Decline understand that.

@aliasalias

#6 for him to say/do something about Julian Assange and Chelsea Manning as well. I ask 'why the silence' on them both and others are tweeting 'say his name!'.
Ignoring Julian Assange's plight for over a decade is the reason attacks on those that expose the truth has everything to do with why this is happening to Glenn Greenwald.

I only remember hear a vague, and brief mention of Assange by Bernie and that has to have been a couple of years ago, at least, but Elizabeth wasn't vague at she called him a "bad actor', so forget the Courts she has already passed judgement of guilt.