Corporate media

Corporate media   (Mainstream, Propaganda)
Abbreviation	CCM
Type	commercial
Interest of	Ali Aslan, Oscar Callaway, Campain, Gannett, Chris Hedges, Adrienne van Heteren, Humansarefree.com, Media Bias/Fact Check, Dawa Khan Menapal, Mark Crispin Miller, Paschalidis Panagiotis, Press Complaints Commission, Lila Rajiva, Swiss Policy Research, The Truthseeker, Unwelcome Guests, WinterWatch, Dave Van Zandt
Founder of	Fearporn
Sponsored by	Canadian church attacks, He Will Not Divide Us
Exposed by	Oscar Callaway
Subpage	•Corporate media/Censorship •Corporate media/Consolidation •Corporate media/Deep state control •Corporate media/Islamophobia •Corporate media/Logic •Corporate media/Mendacity
The corporate media refers to itself as 'mainstream' in an effort to marginalize so-called "alternative" media. While some instances (e.g. BBC) are not strictly commercial, all the corporate media is hierarchically structured, so a very small number of editors can censor or modify its output.

Corporate/commercially controlled media (CCM), also termed big media, legacy media, old media or (misleadingly) mainstream media (MSM) is a set of corporations whose main output will be familiar to most, i.e. ABC, BBC, CBS, CNN, the Washington Post, the New York Times etc. Their censorship, mendacity, control by the deep state (state-corporate media) and refusal to go near third rail topics are primary reasons that this website was set up.

Official Narrative

Echoing the official narrative of its longer established bedfellows, Wikipedia refers to the large news conglomerates with their preferred self-description, the "corporate media" (MSM). As of 2017, the Wikipedia page had lead for some years with a reference to a 1997 article by Noam Chomsky, stating that "Mainstream Media" (MSM) "both reflect and shape prevailing currents of thought". This is an uncomfortable fit with a September 2016 poll finding that found only 32% of US adults trusting big media "to report the news fully, accurately and fairly."

Problems

The Wikipedia page itself refers to the massive media consolidation in the US (though Wikipedia editors have removed details of its extent). Considering that corporate media has a hierarchical structure this renders them easily controllable, rendering the idea of big media as "reflective" of public opinion as highly suspect. Many perceive it as little more than a system of control and containment of the population. Since the news agenda is dictated by a very small number of very rich individuals, it has been suggested that the phrase "mainstream" would be more accurate if replaced by a label which respected the plutocratic agenda it promotes. On Wikispooks, the term CCM (Commercially/Corporate Controlled Media) is preferred.

"The way in which the news function has been transformed into a strategic arm of global economic power has evolved until it has become part of the landscape. What was once an exercise in risk-taking, confrontation and a useful tool for society now seems to have taken the opposite side by manipulating and concealing truths that, if they were in the public domain, would be capable of turning the most powerful topsy-turvy. What is striking, however, is the cynicism with which the major news networks show their contempt for the humanitarian tragedies ravaging the planet, and how their content is accepted as absolute truth. [...] The incessant pressures to silence the truth and conceal state crimes are not only a thing of Third World countries; we see it in the big international networks, condoning spurious decisions of the great powers and turning their aggressions into an example of democratic virtues. Journalism today is going through the greatest credibility crisis in its history."

Deep state control

Full article: Corporate media/Deep state control

A lot of topics such as popular culture, celebrities etc. are of only marginal interest to deep state forces. On those which are of interest, a range of of measures combine to give more or less (generally more) effective control over what is published. The formal hierarchy of editor control is only the most obvious of a whole suite of methods to regulate the output of the corporate media. The net result is that certain established official narratives are promoted - as are those who think in these terms and can naturally write convincingly about them; conversely, those who are set on expressing alternative evidence or opinions find their careers as professional journalists short-lived. Although so pervasive as to be almost universal, this deep control goes unnoticed by many in the profession, whose reporting remains so far from matters of interest to the deep state that is remains outside their experience.

Mendacity

Full article: Corporate media/Mendacity

Corporate media attempt to maintain plausible deniability as a fallback position in case their lies, whether of omission of commission, or exposed later. The 1995 case of Steve Wilson and Jane Akre clarified an important point, although it was not widely reported in US at the time. The couple were fired when they refused to tailor their investigation into RBGH to suit Monsanto's wishes. Ruling on their case, a Florida Court of Appeals unanimously agreed that their employer could demand that they lie since there is no rule against distorting or falsifying the news in the United States. An uncertain but large proportion (perhaps >50%) of TV news footage in USA is in fact VNRs (video news releases) produced by third party corporations, as a kind of stealth advertising that masquerades as news.

Loss of confidence

A 2022 commentary on corporate media support of Joe Biden and Kamala Harris

The US public no longer has much faith in corporate media; the proportion of Americans expressing a “great deal of confidence” in the press has fallen from 28% in 1976 to just 8% in 2016. This trend may have inspired the "fake news website" campaign of late 2016 which blewback into the popularity of the phrase "fake news", which continues to inspire people to cross check media sources, further undermining faith in sources which are mendacious.

Censorship

Full article: Corporate media/Censorship

Daniel Ellsberg says that the White House has ordered the press not to cover the revelations of Sibel Edmonds:

“I am confident that there is conversation inside the Government as to ‘How do we deal with Sibel [Edmonds]? The first line of defense is to ensure that she doesn’t get into the [corporate] media. I think any outlet that thought of using her materials would go to to the government and they would be told “don’t touch this...””
Daniel Ellsberg (2014) 

Internet censorship is of necessity more complex and varied where many users can post. Covert censorship is generally preferred, but sometimes overt censorship is resorted to. Wikipedia has its own censorship practices. Reddit is subject to censorship and control. In November 2016 Reddit banned a group which was investigating top level pedophilia in US society to prevent a "witch hunt". The group continued their investigate at voat.co, an alternative platform not owned by Conde Nast. The group has compiled a list of dozens of corporate media outlets which removed related content.

Third rail topics

Full article: Third rail topic

The sudden about face of the UK's best selling newspaper, the Sunday Times as regards Sibel Edmonds could be likened to that of the San Jose Mercury News after Gary Webb revealed the CIA's deep involvement in drug trafficking. Both papers, after initially carrying out their own research to verify the information, backed their source's extraordinary revelations. Both however sudden reversed their policy without providing an explanation.

“[The] investigation based on Edmonds’ information was supposed to have four parts, but was inexplicably dropped. “The story was pulled half-way, suddenly, without any warning”, the journalist said. “I wasn’t party to the editorial decision to drop the story, but there was a belief in the office amongst several journalists who were part of the Insight investigative unit that the decision was made under pressure from the U.S. State Department, because the story might cause a diplomatic incident... The way the story was dropped was unusual, but the belief amongst my colleagues this happened under political pressure is plausible.” He cryptically described an “editorial mechanism, linked to the paper but not formally part of it, which could however exert control on stories when necessary, linked to certain interests.” When asked which interests, the journalist said, “I can’t say. I can’t talk about that.””
An unnamed "lead reporter" on Edwards' series at the Sunday Times. (January 2008) 

Certain topics - such as the 2001 Mexican legislative assembly attack, the Dallas occupy plot to assassinate leaders of Occupy Houston, and the 60+ year history of Le Cercle - have been subject to an almost total media blackout, though solid primary sources exist and they are events of major significance with far reaching implications. Shai Masot‎ disappeared from the corporate news agenda after he was exposed as a spook, although he did not retire.

Consolidation

Full article: Corporate media/Consolidation

The last 20 years have seen an unprecedented consolidation of media ownership, meaning that ownership of US TV, radio, newspaper and billboards is more concentrated than ever. The same process has been repeated worldwide - leaving an ever smaller number of huge corporations controlling an ever large number of formerly independent media outlets, retaining the apparent diversity of opinion while in fact exercising hierarchical control over content, thus presenting a controlled spectrum of opinion.

High Profile Examples

BBC

Full article: BBC

On the face of it the BBC, as a tax-payer funded organisation (a.k.a. "public-service broadcaster"), ought to be less susceptible to the commercial pressures on the rest of the corporate media. On matters of little importance to the deep state, the BBC is relatively balanced and impartial. This however makes its clandestine control by the powers that be all the more insidious. There are many cases of such lofty dismissal, amply documented on the Media Lens. Where issues impinge upon the interests of the permanent government, the BBC has always been the voice of the British Establishment. Its charter is the work of men wedded to the Mackinder-Rhodes-Milner vision of the British Empire as a missionary force for 'progress' and the spread of civilisation in the world; it is financed on the whim of a government in thrall of the deep state. How could it be anything else?

Wikipedia

Full article: Wikipedia

Wikipedia experienced a professionalisation around 2007 which moved it firmly in the direction of the commercially controlled media. This is most clearly understood through the "Reliable Sources" policy in particular which means, more or less, that if a subject hasn't been reported on by commercially controlled media or by those in established positions of social power and influence, then Wikipedia doesn't want to know about it. These policies do in fact lead to a credible and useful encyclopaedia on whole swathe of topics (i.e. technical, non-political topics) no doubt giving many readers the misleading impression that Wikipedia articles are reliable even for politically sensitive topics.

Alternatives

The audience of several corporate media companies (such as MSNBC, Fox News and CNN) declined significantly in 2013 suggesting that viewers were going elsewhere for information. The main alternative to the corporate media is the internet, where a multiplicity of smaller sources (such as Wikispooks) provide an alternative to the online corporate news sites. One response to this has been to ramp up propaganda about "cyberterrorism" and to expand internet censorship under pretexts such as the "war on terror" or the protection of "intellectual property".

Search Engines

The de facto monopoly of search engines and social networking websites run by corporations well integrated in business networks poses another challenge for those who want to avoid manipulation. An alternative search engine is the seeks project which uses user-defined page ranking.

The ranking of commercially controlled search engines presents an obstacle for social change because:

1. they keep users in search bubbles;
2. they censor hot topics right away;
3. most importantly they act as multiplier to the - as of 2015 - commercially controlled public opinion through their ranking based on popularity. "Share" and "Like" buttons have a similar multiplier function which makes alternative news and research appear marginal compared to the boosted Consensus trance.

 

An event carried out

Event	Description
9-11/Cover-up	A lot of resources have been devoted to containing the truth about the events of September 11th, 2001. However, while it has been more or less kept from television screens, awareness about 9-11 is growing worldwide.

 

Examples

Page name	Description
ABC News	A corporate controlled media outlet
Advance Publications
Agence France-Presse	The French-News-Agency is the world's oldest news organisation.
Al Jazeera
Asia Times	Corporate media that also publishes Pepe Escobar
Associated Press	Very important hub of corporate media
Australian Broadcasting Corporation
BBC	A state propaganda apparatus disguised as a quasi-autonomous public service corporation.
BBC/Verify	A BBC "fact checking service"
Belteleradio	The state television and radio broadcasting service of Belarus.
Bloomberg	Media empire owned by billionaire Michael Bloomberg.
Bureau of Investigative Journalism
CBS
CNBC	US corporate media conglomerate
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation	A Canadian state-owned media outlet.
Channel 4	UK corporate media TV station
Channel 4/News	Main news programme on British television broadcaster Channel 4
Conservative Inc.	"Big Con enforce the guidelines of Big Tech and punish conservatives on their behalf"
Counterpunch	A US biweekly political magazine that since 2018 has moved sharply to the official narrative.
Dagens Nyheter	Swedish corporate newspaper. Heavy Bilderberg habit.
Danmarks Radio	Danish state broadcaster.
De Telegraaf	Biggest newspaper of the Netherlands. A (very slightly) toned version of The Sun.
Democracy Now!	"Alternative" media with nothing much to say about deep politics.
Disney	Huge mass media corporation.
European Broadcasting Union	A global media organisation.
Fox News	Not known for its insightful analysis, but has provided useful reporting on topics such as 9-11 and Covid-19
Houston Post	Texas newspaper, closed in 1995
Hubert Burda Media
HuffPost
IAC (corporation)
ITV	British state media. Main rival of the BBC.
ITV News
Independent media	Media that is not part of the corporate media system, mostly independently and tenuously funded.
Jerusalem Post
Jewish Chronicle
Life Magazine	Active in covering up the truth about the JFK assassination and promoting the narrative of the Warren Commission.
Los Angeles Times	Aggressively promoted COVID-19 jabs, and continues to be complicit in covering up the truth about the JFK/Assassination.
MSNBC
Medium	Online corporate publishing platform
NBC	US corporate media outlet
NOS	A Dutch state broadcaster with some questionable segments.
NPR
NRC Handelsblad	Dutch big newspaper.
National Enquirer
New York Times	"All the news that fits our views"... A US Deep state affiliated newspaper "to make a professional middle class comfortable and feel that everything is OK."
Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation	State TV and radio corporation dominating the national media landscape.
PBS
Press Association	UK corporate news agency
Project Syndicate	Syndicate to spread "free" op-eds subjects in corporate media to influence what people think. But 'he who pays the piper calls the tune' - in this case mostly George Soros and Bill Gates.
RAI	The national public broadcasting company of Italy
... further results

 

Corporate media victims on Wikispooks

Title	Description
Craig Kelly	Australian dissident MP; COVID-19/Resistance.
David Kelly	Dr David Kelly, a biological weapons expert who died in highly suspicious circumstances
Anders Tegnell	State epidemiologist of Sweden during COVID.

 

Related Quotations

Page	Quote	Author	Date
Philip Agee	“[CIA] operations help sustain favorable operating conditions for U.S.-based multi-national corporations. These conditions, together with political hegemony, were our real goals. So-called liberal democracy and pluralism were only means to those ends. "Free elections" really meant freedom for our candidates. "Free trade unions" meant freedom for us to establish our unions. "Freedom of the press" mean freedom for us to pay journalists to publish our material as if it were the journalists' own. When an elected government threatened U.S. economic and political interests, it had to go. Social and economic justice were fine concepts for public relations, but only for that.”	Philip Agee	1987
Blowback	“You want to know what this was really all about. The Nixon campaign in 1968, and the Nixon White House after that, had two enemies: the antiwar left and black people. You understand what I’m saying. We knew we couldn’t make it illegal to be either against the war or black, but by getting the public to associate the hippies with marijuana and blacks with heroin, and then criminalizing both heavily, we could disrupt those communities. We could arrest their leaders, raid their homes, break up their meetings, and vilify them night after night on the evening news. Did we know we were lying about the drugs? Of course we did.”	John Ehrlichman	1994
George Carlin	“Now, to balance the scale, I'd like to talk about some things that bring us together, things that point out our similarities instead of our differences. 'Cause that's all you ever hear about in this country. It's our differences. That's all the media and the politicians are ever talking about—the things that separate us, things that make us different from one another. That's the way the ruling class operates in any society. They try to divide the rest of the people. They keep the lower and the middle classes fighting with each other so that they, the rich, can run off with all the fucking money! Fairly simple thing. Happens to work. You know? Anything different—that's what they're gonna talk about—race, religion, ethnic and national background, jobs, income, education, social status, sexuality, anything they can do to keep us fighting with each other, so that they can keep going to the bank! You know how I define the economic and social classes in this country? The upper class keeps all of the money, pays none of the taxes. The middle class pays all of the taxes, does all of the work. The poor are there just to scare the shit out of the middle class. Keep 'em showing up at those jobs.”	George Carlin
Jimmy Carter	“Nowadays, because of the unwarranted invasion of Iraq by Bush and Blair, which was a completely unjust adventure based on misleading statements, and the lack of any effort to resolve the Palestinian issue, [there is] massive Islamic condemnation of the United States. (...) (American media organisations), have been cowed, because they didn't want to be unpatriotic. There has been a lack of inquisitive journalism. In fact, it's hard to think of a major medium in the United States that has been objective and fair and balanced, and critical when criticism was deserved”	Jimmy Carter	2004
James Corbett	“When there is a question mark in the headline, the answer is always no.”	James Corbett	22 October 2021
Corporate media/Logic	“Now, to balance the scale, I'd like to talk about some things that bring us together, things that point out our similarities instead of our differences. 'Cause that's all you ever hear about in this country. It's our differences. That's all the media and the politicians are ever talking about—the things that separate us, things that make us different from one another. That's the way the ruling class operates in any society. They try to divide the rest of the people. They keep the lower and the middle classes fighting with each other so that they, the rich, can run off with all the fucking money! Fairly simple thing. Happens to work. You know? Anything different—that's what they're gonna talk about—race, religion, ethnic and national background, jobs, income, education, social status, sexuality, anything they can do to keep us fighting with each other, so that they can keep going to the bank! You know how I define the economic and social classes in this country? The upper class keeps all of the money, pays none of the taxes. The middle class pays all of the taxes, does all of the work. The poor are there just to scare the shit out of the middle class. Keep 'em showing up at those jobs.”	George Carlin
Corporate media/Mendacity	“Early in life I have noticed that no event is ever correctly reported in a newspaper.”	George Orwell	1943
Document:Election 2017: finally, a real choice for Britain's voters	“If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.”	Malcolm X
Norman Fenton	“Note that we have no issue with the contents of either of these posts, nor do we know anything objectionable about the posters themselves. The only point we wish to make is that neither has been censored on X for posting on topics we are currently censored for. But there is another perhaps more uncomfortable possible conclusion we might arrive at. That dissent from particular individuals or groups is positively allowed or even approved on X, whilst that from others, such as us, is not. Hence it not the message but the source of the message, or the timing of the message, that is being censored. Hence who gets to tell you the 'vaccines are bad' might matter to Elon Musk and X, much more than the actual message imparted. In this way X appears to be no different from MSM: politics, influence and money may hold sway to varying extents. And this determines what messages people see, when and by whom.”	Norman Fenton Martin Neil	22 April 2024
Kevin Flaherty	“Since the assassination of John F. Kennedy, an international, crypto-fascist syndicate has been rapidly consolidating its grip on this planet. Changes to the global system have been implemented slowly, consistently and in a manner so subtle that only a tiny fraction of the population in the industrialized world ever noticed anything was wrong... I view the output of established media as a slurry of manure and toxic waste; a propaganda product that requires heavy analysis and context fitting in order to recover the 5%-10% of useful information contained within an obfuscated mess. What’s the solution? The system is in collapse now. This is my best and only advice: Get into a situation that eliminates your reliance on luck and minimizes the impact of factors that are completely beyond your control. Do this immediately.”	Kevin Flaherty
Fort Russ	“We reject the false model of ‘objective journalism’, [...] ‘Objective journalism’ was a false construct developed by corporate media to justify large monopolies. Can there be a view from nowhere? From everywhere all at once? Of course not. Journalism and news has always been the marriage of facts and narrative – facts do not speak for themselves, as what facts are presented always tells a different story. There are an infinite number of facts in the world we live in, the narratives we present must be narratives that are at the same time sober, truthful, and empowering.”	Joaquin Flores
Chris Hedges	“The crisis that we face is not so much an economic crisis but a moral crisis. The utter cynicism on the part of very well paid media who have become in essence hedonists of power (which is what courtiers are) that the truth no longer matters, that that sacred contract that a great reporter makes between the viewer or the reader to tell them the truth is no longer relevant.”	Chris Hedges
Donald Jeffries	“The way history is presented to Americans, from the youngest schoolchildren to the doctorate-level Ivy Leaguers, mirrors the way news is presented to the public. Much as it is difficult to find a single issue or event which the mainstream media has reported on accurately, it is just as difficult to find any historical event, or historical figure, portrayed honestly by establishment historians. We still see everyone from history professors to late-night comedians referring to any opponent of the establishment with a mean-spirited, impossibly caricatured negativity.”	Donald Jeffries	2019
Journalist	“If we had met five years ago, you wouldn't have found a more staunch defender of the newspaper industry than me ... I was winning awards, getting raises, lecturing college classes, appearing on TV shows, and judging journalism contests. So how could I possibly agree with people like Noam Chomsky and Ben Bagdikian, who were claiming the system didn't work, that it was steered by powerful special interests and corporations, and existed to protect the power elite? And then I wrote some stories that made me realize how sadly misplaced my bliss had been. The reason I'd enjoyed such smooth sailing for so long hadn't been, as I'd assumed, because I was careful and diligent and good at my job ... The truth was that, in all those years, I hadn't written anything important enough to suppress.”	Gary Webb
Journalist	“There is no such a thing in America as an independent press, unless it is out in country towns. You are all slaves. You know it, and I know it. There is not one of you who dares to express an honest opinion. If you expressed it, you would know beforehand that it would never appear in print. I am paid $150 for keeping honest opinions out of the paper I am connected with. Others of you are paid similar salaries for doing similar things. If I should allow honest opinions to be printed in one issue of my paper, I would be like Othello before twenty-four hours: my occupation would be gone. The man who would be so foolish as to write honest opinions would be out on the street hunting for another job. The business of a New York journalist is to distort the truth, to lie outright, to pervert, to villify, to fawn at the feet of Mammon, and to sell his country and his race for his daily bread, or for what is about the same — his salary. You know this, and I know it; and what foolery to be toasting an "Independent Press"! We are the tools and vassals of rich men behind the scenes. We are jumping-jacks. They pull the string and we dance. Our time, our talents, our lives, our possibilities, are all the property of other men. We are intellectual prostitutes.”	John Swinton
Journalist	“This story of CIA drug dealing became a sensation because of the website, not because of the story, but because people could get to it. And they could never have gotten to it before because the San Jose Mercury News is a small regional newspaper in Northern California that you couldn't read if you lived in New York or you couldn't read if you lived in L.A.. But this story you could read anywhere in the world.”	Gary Webb	2003
Robert F. Kennedy Jr	“Newspapers and electronic media outlets have suppressed legitimate debate over vaccine safety or the ongoing corruption scandals at the CDC. They allow ...Pharma shills almost unlimited use of the airwaves to spout Pharma propaganda—always unquestioned and unanswered. Newspapers won’t publish Op Eds or letters or comments from vaccine safety advocates. Even alternative press—like Huffington Post, Drudge Report, Salon, Slate and Mother Jones won’t allow discussion—and these are supposedly the antidote to a corporate controlled media. Astonishingly, many journalists openly advocate the censoring of any discussion about vaccine safety...The media’s silence on this issue is not simply a quid pro quo for billions of dollars of annual pharmaceutical advertising. Most reporters and media outlets accept the muzzle because they think they are safeguarding public health. They believe that allowing debate about vaccine safety and CDC corruption may cause the public to stop vaccinating.”	Robert F. Kennedy Jr	2015
Anatoly Kurmanaev	“"Every journalist has an audience he caters for and in my case, it’s the financial community. You are a mercenary in a sense. You’re there to provide information to a particular client that they find important and it's not good or bad, it’s just the way it is...A couple of times from my experience you try to use, I wouldn’t call them 'cheap tricks', but yeah, kind of sexy tricks. Just last week we had a story about condom shortages in Venezuela. At the official exchange rate condoms were at like $750 dollars or something and the headline was something like ‘$750 dollar condom in Venezuela’ and everyone clicks it, everyone is like 'Jesus, why do they sell it for like $750?'" (We don't learn until the ninth paragraph of Kurmanaev's article that a pack of condoms actually cost about the same as it did in the US at the time.)”	Anatoly Kurmanaev	2019
John Laughland	“A feature of today’s mass media culture which many dissidents lazily and wrongly denounce as "totalitarian" is precisely that dissenting views may be expressed and published, but this is precisely because, being mere drops in the ocean, they are never a threat to the tide of propaganda.”	John Laughland	2010
Robert Malone	“Many years ago, when I was working for the "Aereas Global Tuberculosis Vaccine Foundation", which was one of the early Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation nonprofit vaccine companies, the CEO hired a media consulting firm that mainly consisted of a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and a marketing manager. To ensure that favorable stories about the organization and its mission were printed, the "journalist" and the marketing specialist would consult with their clients and learn what story the organization wanted to be told in a major print publication. An article pushing the story would then be crafted, all of the necessary background assembled to meet whatever editorial review standards were likely to be encountered. Then this prebaked work would be fed to some "journalists" working for the targeted publication. My first "You're not in Kansas anymore" moment concerning modern journalism was when I saw this process used to "place" an article in The Economist, which I had naïvely believed operated as an independent arbiter of truth. Even then, I thought, - well, this can't be the norm, can it?”	Robert Malone	2022
New York Times	“The truth is hard to find. The truth is hard to know. The truth is more important than ever,” reads a television ad for The New York Times. What the paper fails to add is that the hardest place to find the truth about the forces affecting the life of the average American and the truth about empire is in the Times itself. News organizations, from the [NYT] to the tawdry forms of entertainment masquerading as news on television, have rendered most people and their concerns invisible.”	Chris Hedges
OffGuardian	“The most peculiar thing about COVID19 so far has been that they are not hiding the data […] The data is right there, and yet it is separate from the narrative, which never references the data; the data never references the narrative. What you have to do is basically ignore everything the media says, and just look at the numbers, and…where the numbers come from”	OffGuardian	21 April 2020
Time Magazine	“You don't need to manipulate Time magazine, for example, because there are [Central Intelligence] Agency people at the management level”	William Bader	1976
Yanis Varoufakis	“The establishment, the Deep State, call it whatever you want, the oligarchy, they’ve become much, much better at character assassination than they used to be. Because back in the 1960s and 1970s, you know, they would accuse you of being a Communist. They would accuse me of being a Marxist. Well, I am a Marxist. I’m really not going to suffer that much if you accuse me of being a left-winger. I am a left-winger! Now what they do is something far worse. They accuse you of something that really hurts you. Calling somebody like us a racist, a bigot, an antisemite, a rapist. This is what really hurts because if anybody calls me a rapist today, right, even if it’s complete baloney, I feel as a feminist I have the need to give the woman, implied or involved somehow in this accusation, the opportunity to speak against me. Because that is what we left-wingers do.”	Yanis Varoufakis	6 January 2021
Zach Vorhies	“As a trained scientist I have a multifaceted view of the world based on evidence and fact. Therefore any claim that someone has fringe beliefs or theories should be checked against http://trends.google.com and see what the views of the rest of america are and what they search for. They may find that many beliefs that are slandered as fringe are actually mainstream beliefs of we-the-people.”	Zach Vorhies
Malcolm X	“The media's the most powerful entity on earth. They have the power to make the innocent guilty and to make the guilty innocent, and that's power. Because they control the minds of the masses.”	Malcolm X	1963
Jan Øberg	“There is a lid on the western mainstream media in a way it has NEVER been before… 'Today there is no "crack in the wall"…' 10% is empirically true, 20% is fake - narratives, 70%, and it is the most important part, is omitted news.”	Jan Øberg	17 August 2021

 

Sponsors

Event	Description
Canadian church attacks	A coordinated string of vandalism and arson attacks on churches across Canada. The Canadian version of the George Floyd protests? (Ongoing)
He Will Not Divide Us	Hollywood endorsed "artistic exhibition", set up in opposition to the presidency of Donald Trump. which was trolled. An infamous event in internet history.

 

Related Documents

Title	Type	Publication date	Author(s)	Description
Document:911 Truth and the MSM	article	15 February 2010	Elizabeth Woodworth	A description of the changing response of the corporate media to the events of 9/11 over the 8 years since the event.
Document:Anatomy of a Scandal: Israel Crucifies Corbyn	Article	14 August 2014	Michael W. Howard	"Tom Watson has it backward: the 'eternal shame and embarrassment' come when Labour, swallowing whatever pride it has left, meekly submits to being harassed and blackmailed by a foreign power and its vulgar propagandists. Jeremy Corbyn, it seems, is gearing up to do just that. Chalk one up for Goebbels."
Document:Cryptome’s searing critique of Snowden Inc	article	13 February 2016	Tim Shorrock	Commentary on an interview with John Young and his wife Deborah Natsios by Pit Schultz of reboot.fm at the 'Transmedia 2016' event in Berlin on 6 February 2016
Document:Election 2017: finally, a real choice for Britain's voters	Article	17 May 2017	Raoul Martinez	No wonder the billionaire-owned media are attacking Jeremy Corbyn with everything they've got. But we the people can still win.
Document:Filtering Sources On The Syrian War	article	4 February 2014	David Edwards	A cogent demonstration of the gross bias of the mainstream media in its coverage of the ongoing 2011 Syrian insurgency. It shows that they are immune to any lessons of their similarly mendacious reporting both before and during the 2003 Iraq war
Document:Integrity 2018 Moldova Cluster (1)	strategy document	26 December 2018	Integrity Initiative
Document:Larry Sanger is right, Wikipedia has become the establishment thought police - just look at my entry on there	Article	12 July 2021	Eva Bartlett	Eva Bartlett in an op-ed for RT, writes about the problems with Wikipedia.
Document:Media Freedom? Show me the MSM Journalist Opposing the Torture of Assange	blog post	7 September 2020	Craig Murray	At a time when the government is mooting designating Extinction Rebellion as Serious Organised Crime, right wing bequiffed muppet Keir Starmer was piously condemning the group, stating: “The free press is the cornerstone of democracy and we must do all we can to protect it.”
Document:More Guardian ‘brainwashing’ on Putin	commentary	24 March 2014	Jonathan Cook	A master-class in how the celebrated 'Free-Press' of the Western commercially controlled media is harnessed to the narrative requirements of the Establishments of which they are a part, turning them into little more than propaganda organs where major foreign policy issues are concerned.
Document:No fair hearing for Assange at the Guardian	article	5 February 2016	Jonathan Cook	Demonstrates the Establishment-friendly double standards of the UK's flagship 'Left-wing' newspaper - The Guardian - through analysis of its coverage of a UN decision on the political asylum of Julian Assange
Document:Oligarchs and Corruption Proposed Programme	project proposal	June 2018	Euan Grant	"Early briefings of Press and media where Institute of Statecraft has particular links with the Times, Telegraph, Guardian and BBC TV and radio and specialist correspondents. Need to strengthen with the Mail." The document proves that Integrity Initative is not only influence network: "Use US and Canadian contacts to do likewise re powerful and influential North American networks."
Document:Sanitizing the Bahraini Crackdown	article	21 March 2011	Stephen Gowans
Document:The Dominant Grand Narrative Of Our Time	article	27 January 2014	David Cromwell	Mainstream media spokesmen, journalists and reporters are corralled into supporting and promoting the Establishment 'Dominant Grand-Narrative of our Time' while most appear blissfully unaware of the gross deceptions their careers are harnessed too - 'a man cannot see what his livelihood requires him NOT to see' - as the saying goes
Document:The Freedom of Courage	blog post	1 October 2017	Craig Murray	When you see the right wing Establishment worldwide, plus the entire mainstream media, united against ordinary people as we see today in Catalonia, it's a no-brainer which side you should be on.
Document:The Incredible Disappearance of Shai Masot	blog post	2 June 2019	Craig Murray	The open attempt to stifle all criticism of Israel, and in effect to make adherence to zionism a pre-condition for membership of the Labour Party – or indeed acceptance in wider society – is a vicious form of authoritarianism that should have been repudiated robustly from day one.
Document:The Propaganda Model	article	5 October 2011	David Cromwell	An overview of the 'Propaganda Model' that accurately defines the nature of the western mainstream media. It also illustrates why "Commercially Controlled Media" is probably a better and more accurate term
Document:The deeper truths journalists are blind to	article	21 February 2016	Jonathan Cook	Corporate media is constitutionally incapable of honest objective reporting on matters affecting the vital interests of Establishment power
Document:To influence/shape entertainment outputs	'Memorandum' document on how to influence/shape entertainment outputs	26 December 2018	Integrity Initiative Victor Madeira
Document:US media, politicians mobilize against Sochi Olympics	article	10 February 2014	Andrea Peters	A useful analysis of the orchestrated campaign of vilification against Russia and its president coincident with the run-up to the Sochi winter Olympics.
Document:Why the military-industrial complex went woke	Article	5 March 2021	Paddy Hannam	What is the Military industrial complex doing? They are engaged in a woke propaganda campaign as part of a rebranding of the war industry for the new generation.
File:Truthontherock.pdf	report		Glasgow University Media Group	An investigation into the wholesale distortion of news by the corporate media when reporting on the SAS killings of 3 IRA members in Gibraltar on 6 March 1988. It is a serious indictment of the British media's handling of the affair and particularly that of The Sunday Times.

 

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8 November 2017 Robin  Good information but lacks structure
This article lacks a good historical overview, but has important and current information to assist in reading between the li(n)es of the corporate media machine.

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