Homogenous News
- by Erik
Fortman - (Posted
here by Wes Penre, May 4, 2005)
I’ve
often reflected on the fact that the “mainstream media” – by which I mean CNN,
Fox News, MSNBC; and their source, Associated Press – often presents the same
stories in the supposedly distinct “programming” – by which I literally mean the
series of visuals and narrative that are meant to program the minds of the U.S.
into a cohesive dialectic. I’ve studied and interviewed enough to know that not
only are intelligence operatives placed inside newsrooms; not only is the
Federal Government generating fake newscasts with impunity; and, not only are
many of the newscasters (O’Reilly, Matthews, Hannity, etc.) in on it; but, the
scheme truly is obviously simple. Simply, selected stories are chosen for the
mass consumption of the American populace.
In writing of the CIA’s
Operation Mockingbird, Alex Constantine details the inception and
implementation of intelligence infiltration into media. Under the auspices of
“fighting
Communism,” (that supreme 20th Century banker’s scheme), Globalist
operatives created Mockingbird. Alex Constantine: “The network was overseen by
Allen Dulles, a templar for German and American corporations who wanted their
points of view represented (monopolized E.F) in the public print. Early
Mockingbird influenced 25 newspapers and wire agencies consenting to act as
organs of CIA propaganda.” As Anup Shah adds in his work, “War,
Propaganda, and the Media”: “Military control of information
during war time is also a major contributing factor to propaganda, especially
when the media go along with it without question.” Interesting to note is that
the U.S. has been deemed to be at perpetual war. The gold fleece surrounding
three sides of the U.S. flag in all courtrooms is evidence of this.
Executive Order 10834
of 1959 clearly states, “a military flag is a flag that resembles the
regular flag of the United States, except that it has a YELLOW FRINGE border on
three sides.” Yes, it is true. America is under military rule, especially in
courts. Increasingly, this military flag is being used for Federal rituals, and
in corporate offices.
The CIA, and we can expect the FBI, NSA, even Mossad and other foreign
intelligence agencies, have taken over mainstream news media. So, it should not
be any surprise that agents embedded inside network news are quite compelled to
run fake news stories given to them by the government; a government controlled
by the corporations and the international banking cartel (that owns the 1st
World militaries.) Without much detail, here is a smattering of mainstream news
stories admitting the truth. The Guardian Unlimited: “TV news reports in
America that showed President George Bush getting a standing ovation from
potential voters have been exposed as fake, it has emerged. The US government
admitted it paid actors to pose as journalists in video news releases sent to TV
stations intending to convey support for new laws about health benefits.” The
Center for Media Democracy relays that the GAO deemed the practice illegal on
several fronts. “The General Accounting Office
determined that video news releases touting the new Medicare law, which ran as
news reports on some 40 stations, violated a ban on government funded publicity
and propaganda.” Now, no one should ponder notions that Bush is the first
President to use unethical propaganda practices. Yet, it can’t be refuted that
Bush might be the most flagrantly exhibitionist of leaders since FDR. Bush spit
in the face of the GAO, as revealed in the following article. The Washington
Post, among many others, reported: “The Bush administration, rejecting an
opinion from the Government Accountability Office, said last week that it is
legal for federal agencies to feed TV stations prepackaged news stories that do
not disclose the government's role in producing them.” Blah, blah, blah,
they’ll do whatever they want, business as usual.
The effect of all this is that the mainstream news reports almost identical
stories, everyday, all year. To demonstrate this, here are headlines for April
28, 2005.
CNN,
Headline – The most important news of the day for CNN, despite the UN
involvement in Sudan, despite the ongoing Iraq War, despite the crashing dollar,
was Michael Jackson’s ex-wife’s testimony in his pedophilia case.
FOX,
Headline – What do you know? The glaring headline at Fox is also Jackson’s
baby’s Momma.
MSNBC,
Headline – You guessed it. ‘Great Father’ claims Rowe, Jackson’s ex.
CBS,
Headline – ‘Iraqi Lawmakers OK Partial Cabinet’. Well, it’s a bit better,
but the second story, one of the few with a picture, was the Jackson ex story.
Of the top five stories from these news sources today, every one included
Jackson’s ex and the search for the missing Georgia bride. All had one story on
child pornography and one on some form of Congressional bickering.
This might not be evidence that there is a central news source, but facts
suggest that there is a central intelligence news sources. The primary backer
of fake news, slanted news, embedded journalist, and homogenous news have been
revealed as corporations, owned by the very Elite who are members of, or have
representatives involved in, the Elite organizations: Bilderberg, IMF, World
Bank, U.N., CFR, etc. The corporate and banking masters make money off war and
regulated commerce. They’ve declared war on America, and are in control of our
government. We have been put up as corporate property in response to our
nation’s declaring bankruptcy under FDR. Our corporate government claims a de
facto right to control news in times of war. Therefore, we are in perpetual
war. The Elite’s right to propagandize is thus substantiated.
Watch Fox, or CBS; read the New York Times or Time; listen to Hannity or
Colmes. It matters little. You will get Michael Jackson, donkey vs. elephant
bickering, isolated pedophilia cases, and a lion’s share of inanity. O’Reilly
will declare that the government is committing treasonous acts by allowing
erosion to national security at the borders. Then, he’ll defend Bush and tell
you the “crazy lefties” are the traitors for insisting that we should not be at
war in Iraq. Hannity heralds the Minute Men Project (seeing the “journalist” in
Arizona in his perfectly pressed khakis and $250 hair coif was hilarious). Yet,
he refuses to take Bush, or Schwarzenegger, to task: the former for calling the
Minute Men “vigilantes,” and the latter for reversing his statement about
closing the border.
The manifestation of this call to monopolize news became evident in 2003. The
FCC under Michael Powell, Colin Powell’s son (more nepotism), now allows one
company to own up to 45% of all news sources. This means, theoretically, three
companies could control all of our news. What does this mean? Wired News
reported that there are hundreds of news outlets, but “the
reality is, those 500 channels are owned by a handful of companies, opponents
say. And once the ownership rules are lifted, those firms will buy and
consolidate the few independent, profitable outlets remaining.”
The good news is that people are realizing that
television news has been co-opted. It’s universally accepted that citizens are
turning to the Internet for their daily dose of political updating. Good for
this blogger, bad for the Big Boys. We’re incessantly admonished for looking
into the Webosphere for information, chiefly because there are too many mistakes
and outright falsehoods due to the unprofessional nature of the bloggers. I
submit that this makes no difference, as mainstream news routinely gives us
mistakes and falsities. The latter is more detrimental. Because all news on TV
is the same despite the channel, it appears to be infallible. But, when CNN,
FOX, and the rest were reporting that Saddam had WMD’s (O’Reilly actually had
the heart to apologize for this mistake), thousands of bloggers were clamoring
that this was not true, and would come to nothing. Only one or two stories ran
in mainstream print about Bush and Kerry being cousins, and they only modestly
touched upon their Skull & Bones affiliations. Bloggers and webmasters have
whole sections dedicated to this very important information. The sheer
diversity of blogging offsets any problems with mistakes. Points of view are
evident online, too, which is not the case on TV. This could be a whole article
unto itself, but the bottom line is this: blogs offer variety, historical
context, length and depth to news. Mainstream media is controlled by the
Elite. Is it any wonder they attack our new domain?
In the end, the American people are
smart enough to decide for themselves what is right and wrong, what is true and
false. Homogenous news is antithetical to democracy and freedom. Just as the
British Crown attacked our blogging predecessors, such as Samuel Adams and
Thomas Paine, so too the Federal Crown is attacking the Web. Homogenous news
must not ever be accepted by Americans or the World.