Reporter Who Wrote Sunday Times 'Snowden' Propaganda Admits That He's Just Writing What UK Gov't Told Him · 5
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- One of the journalists who wrote the story, Tom Harper, gave an interview to CNN which is quite incredible to watch. Harper just keeps repeating that he doesn't know what's actually true, and that he was just saying what the government told him -- more or less admitting that his role here was not as a reporter, but as a propagandist or a stenographer.
am_Unition · 1252 days ago · link ·
Yep, these should reference one another, you beat me to it by about 10 minutes, rrrrr: This sums up the current state of mainstream journalism perfectly: In the climate of 24-hour media coverage (TM) we have prioritized quantity so high above quality that every shitty story is treated like a golden egg. As long as the teleprompters have some words on them, right?But, to Thomas Harper, if you question his report, you should be asking the government about it, not him. That's not his job.
A famous German journalist has written a book where he reveals the extent to which the press has been corrupted by the CIA. LinkMost of the journalists you see in foreign countries … European or American journalists …, like me in the past, are so-called non-official cover. … Non-official cover means what? You do work for an intelligence agency, … but … when they [the public] find out that you are not only a journalist but a spy too, they [the CIA] will never say this was one of our guys. … So, I have helped them in several situations, and I feel ashamed for that. … I feel ashamed that I … was bribed by billionaires, I was bribed by the Americans, not to report exactly the truth. …
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I didn't even know it was getting an English release. According to this article, the book is also being translated in Russian, Turkish and Hungarian (Hungarian?). I'm trying to learn German, so I might just end up buying the original.