''US media kept Saudi drone base secret for two years''

From The Telegraph

''It only came to light after a blackout on reporting agreed by the media and the Obama administration was broken by two US newspapers.

The revelation that the US has been operating a secret drone base in Saudi Arabia for the past two years came after a blackout on reporting agreed by American media and the Obama administration was broken by two US newspapers.''

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''The 10 Companies That Control the News''

h/t infocyde...................From 24/7 Wall Street via BlackListed News

''Ten major media companies control most of the news content in America. Each of these companies reaches millions of people. The five largest reach more than 50 million people each.

Discussions about news media in America often focus on two main issues. The first is whether the news is influenced by one person or family who owns a controlling interest in the media company. Sumner Redstone owns voting control of Viacom Inc. (NASDAQ: VIAB) and CBS Corp. (NYSE: CBS). The Sulzberger family has controlled The New York Times Company (NYSE: NYT) for over a century.''

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''NUMBED BY LIES''

From News With Views
By Dr Eugene Narrett

''Few guests even suggest the emperor is naked, that purchasing $40B ‘mortgage-backed securities’ / month will create jobs. Postmodern governance is insane and the media spreads the madness in the name of reason and truth: when you want a lie to be believed, make it a big lie and repeat it as often as possible. Don’t blame the media: it’s their job. Words mean whatever they say they mean and Humpty Dumpty is about to have its great fall.''

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''CNN wants journalists to be propagandists, not watchdogs''

From RT.com.........................''Bahrain's crackdown on dissent was explicitly covered in a documentary made by former CNN journalist Amber Lyon. The film won prestigious journalism awards, but was only aired domestically in the US - a decision the documentary-maker thinks was motivated by money.''

''The Man Behind Israel's Press Crisis''

From Al-Monitor

''The Israeli press is struggling. This crisis is partly due to mismanagement and technological advancement, but that's not the only reason, writes Nahum Barnea. The free daily Israel Hayom, owned by the billionaire Sheldon Adelson, is slowly killing all its competitors and enabling the prime minister to gain control over the media.''

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''Catherine Austin Fitts: Depopulate or Bankrupt the Rest of Us''

From USA Watchdog............''http://usawatchdog.com/catherine-austin-fitts-theyre-going-to-depopulate-or-b... - Catherine Austin Fitts of The Solari report says our leaders are ". . . doing a number of things that are going to depopulate or bankrupt the rest of us." Why are people so ill-informed? Fitts says it's because, "Corporate media is lying to you and wasting your time." She also says, "Were going through a period of great change, and the pace is going to accelerate." And, "Gold will be at the center of a new currency that will emerge." Join Greg Hunter of USAWatchdog.com as he goes One-on-One with Catherine Austin Fitts.''

Abby Martin: ''Media Propaganda, Rachel Corrie, Bill Nye, iPhone Spying''

From RT.com.............''On this episode of Breaking the Set, Abby calls out the Corporate Media for distracting us from what's really important, Interviews former NPR Reporter Andrea Seabrook, highlights Bill Nye the Science Guy as today's Hero, and calls out Secretary of State Jon Husted as today's Villain, Talks to Producer Ameera David about Israel/Palestine, and exposes the truth about how much the government can know about you through your iPhone.''

''What are the alternatives to mainstream media disinformation?''

From Global Research

''The Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) summit is under way in Tehran. This extraordinary gathering of world leaders is being ignored or distorted because of the venue. The mainstream media is not reporting about the NAM summit or on the reality about the events in Syria. The military build-up in the Asia-Pacific around China is also being causally brushed aside as if it has minimal importance.

The destruction of the environment, the growing deficit of social justice, civil liberties, economic depression, the gnawing of worker’s rights, political frustration in North America, media disinformation, and so many other topics are all regularly focused on by Global Research. We are committed to giving readers critical coverage on these issues and much more.''

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David Cromwell: ''Reclaiming Your Mind From the Delusions of Propaganda''

Book Review From New Left Project

''Since 2001, David Cromwell, his co-founder David Edwards, and their supporters and subscribers, have been attempting to “correct for the distorted vision of the corporate media”, by which we all gather information about the world. This distorted vision has its own strange declension, in which “we” have a government, while “they” have a regime; “we” intervene, “they” attack; “we” act in accordance with values, while “they” pursue interests and ambitions; and so on.

The “good guys” in question, in case you were wondering, are not Media Lens themselves, but the West, or more specifically the US-UK-NATO bloc, and the elites of the global North, prepared to sacrifice the prosperity, lives, and the very possibility of existence of billions of people in their pursuit of power, wealth and resources. In common with two previous Media Lens books,^[1] WAWTGG features further reports from Cromwell and Edwards’ encounters with, in the words of Edward Herman, those representatives of “experts and the mainstream media” whose function it is “to normalize the unthinkable for the general public”.^[2]  There is, in these reports, a focus on the big themes that feature in most of Media Lens’ work: the wars in Afghanistan and and Iraq; military adventures across the Middle East; climate change; and the financial crisis.''

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''Greg Hunter- MSM keeps masses in the dark''

2 Video's  From USA Watchdog..............

'Charles Biderman-Stocks are going down 50%!'

''Citizen Journalism more powerful than mainstream media?''

From NewszGlobe

''American media is experiencing an increasingly waning readership and captives the audience in the United States. According to Russia Today the answer is in Gallup poll showing that today, only 20% of the American people believes in the veracity of the mass media. Instead, people find far more credible information in the knowledgeable and serious part of the blogosphere.

Through the Internet, people have had a chance to express themselves and create their own blogs and sites where they can publish their information and also write about news events that they either had the opportunity to participate in or gained access to, where the mainstream media companies failed to deliver.''

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''An unlikely subliminal message''---'The Dark Knight Rises'

From The Commentator

''Other reviewers have characterized Christopher Nolan's film-making as art, and I won't argue with that. Every detail of the movie works, from the lighting to the music to the sets to the actors (compelling performances all by Christian Bale, Morgan Freeman, and Anne Hathaway, as well as Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Marion Cotillard from Inception).

But what makes this film remarkable is that it depicts capitalism as a good thing, portrays some of the wealthy as some of the biggest heroes, and most importantly paints a vivid – vividly dark – picture of the society that the "99 percent-Occupy-Wall-Street” folks would have us usher in.

Dark Knight Rises emphasizes the importance of making money. While it is evident both in reality and in this film that some use their financial strength for evil, the lesson is brought home repeatedly that there is untold good that can be done with great wealth – wealth that must be actively earned, as Bruce Wayne discovers.''

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''The New York Times Admits That Virtually Every Major News Organization Allows The News To Be Censored By Government Officials''

From 'End of the American Dream'

''In one of the most shocking articles that the New York Times has ever put out, a New York Times reporter has openly admitted that virtually every major mainstream news organization allows government bureaucrats and campaign officials to censor their stories.  For example, almost every major news organization in the country has agreed to submit virtually all quotes from anyone involved in the Obama campaign or the Romney campaign to gatekeepers for "quote approval" before they will be published. ''

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''An Altered World: 9/11, Obama, And The Attempted Annihilation of Consciousness''

From Truth Excavator

''America's identity is being altered and its political consciousness radically transformed on the false pretext that it is under attack from Al-Qaeda and Islamic terrorism.

When Obama and Bush said that Americans and citizens of the world should not tolerate conspiracy theories about the September 11 events, they were saying in effect: "Look, you stupid slaves, we control your brains. Got it? We wrote the code that now gets your little minds going like rabbits whenever the image of Bin Laden pops up on your television sets. So just be good little lambs, let the big boys handle the course of history, do as we say, stay within our paradigm, and maybe we'll let you live a little longer than the extremists who reject this paradigm. Sounds good? Okay. Now get out of our way."

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''Americans lose faith in mainstream media''

From RT.com

''Is mainstream media dying?''

From RT.com

''Open Letter to the Corporate Media from Occupy New Zealand''

From SCOOP

''You work in a broken, defunct system that is being made collectively
redundant by the indisputable NEED of the people to obtain and ratify and
share, when you don't, the TRUTH of what is happening to our world at
ground level - to the extent that of sheer desperation, members of the
public band together and against any natural inclination embrace REAL
journalism, UNPAID... replacing & exposing hypocrisy and whistleblowing on
the facts you won't report..

Even we the public see the lay-offs happening to you, the media being fed
like minced meat grinding through the insatiable machine of corporate
takeovers, mergers and asset-stripping. We see the patriarchy and the old
boys club. We see 4 white males & a white female on slick 1ZB promo pics.
Even to those of us born "white", these things are no longer able to be
ignored or tolerated, they are unneccesary relics of an ignorant past.''

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''Iraqi press crackdown: Police to close media agencies''

From RT.com

''Iraqi police are under orders to shut down a number of foreign and local media outlets across the country, reports Iraqi journalist rights group. The BBC and Voice of America are just some of the prominent television channels targeted by the order.

The Journalistic Freedoms Observatory (JFO) says it has obtained an official document ordering the closure of 44 different media outlets in Iraq.

The document was reportedly issued by Iraq’s Communications and Media Commission (CMC) and had been approved by the deputy interior minister. It calls on the Department of Relations and Media “to stop media cooperation with these agencies and to notify the police to ban these channels along with the necessity of informing the channels to contact the CMC.” 

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''Media Under Assault in America''

From Strategic Culture
By Wayne Madsen

''The Fourth Estate has never been under as much pressure in the United States as it has been under the Obama administration. On the 40^th anniversary of the Watergate scandal that brought down the Nixon administration, thanks to a vigorous and independent U.S. press, many journalists have openly wondered how today’s corporate-controlled and increasingly-beleaguered independent media would have handled the Watergate affair. Many journalists have rightly concluded that today’s press would have given Nixon and his administration a free pass and there would have been no investigation, impeachment, or presidential resignation.''

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''Zionist Control of the Media''

Shocking........