CNN Exposed: Paid by Foreign & Domestic Govt Agencies For Specific Content

Posted by w1ntermute on Thursday October 17, 2013 @11:18PM
from the redflagnews.com dept.

http://www.redflagnews.com/headlines/cnn-exposed-emmy-winning-former-cnn-journalist-blows-the-whistle-cnn-is-paid-by-foreign-and-domestic-government-agencies-for-specific-content

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Re:CNN Exposed: Paid by Foreign & Domestic Govt Agencies For... by hawkharris on Friday October 18, 2013 @01:12AM (#6569883)

Corporations often shape the news as well. When I was in college, studying public relations, several of my professors estimated (based on industry experience working with major networks like CNN) that 40% of news stories originate from PR offices. In other words, PR people provide the newscasters with detailed pitches or even entire segments.

I don't think this is always a bad thing, but it's something to be aware of as a consumer of media.

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Re:CNN Exposed: Paid by Foreign & Domestic Govt Agencies For... by ballard on Friday October 18, 2013 @01:15AM (#6569889)

Great claims require greater proof. Is it possible to get some more 1st-hand details and interviews to support these claims?

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Re:CNN Exposed: Paid by Foreign & Domestic Govt Agencies For... by brymaster on Friday October 18, 2013 @02:42AM (#6570109)

This sounds familiar. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Mockingbird

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Re:CNN Exposed: Paid by Foreign & Domestic Govt Agencies For... by ethanazir on Friday October 18, 2013 @07:55AM (#6570863)

Is it still news that Anderson Cooper was concurrently CIA/CNN. Is that any different?

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Re:CNN Exposed: Paid by Foreign & Domestic Govt Agencies For... by icementhols on Friday October 18, 2013 @02:34AM (#6570096)

Makes you wonder which other news outlets are in the pay of the governments. BBC?

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Re:CNN Exposed: Paid by Foreign & Domestic Govt Agencies For... by mooism2 on Friday October 18, 2013 @03:37AM (#6570240)

The BBC is in the pay of a major government, yes (funded mostly from taxation), although it seems swayed by the domestic political class as a whole and not merely by the government of the day.

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Re:CNN Exposed: Paid by Foreign & Domestic Govt Agencies For... by NateDad on Friday October 18, 2013 @06:08AM (#6570586)

If she's such a great investigative journalist, where's her proof?

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Re:CNN Exposed: Paid by Foreign & Domestic Govt Agencies For... by doubt_me on Friday October 18, 2013 @12:27AM (#6569776)

Wait just a second...

Her interview with alex jones is a year old

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Re:CNN Exposed: Paid by Foreign & Domestic Govt Agencies For... by brokenparser on Friday October 18, 2013 @02:00AM (#6570001)

And the article is almost 2 months old.

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