How the National Security State Manipulates the News Media

Not recommendable! This article rehashes mostly old stories of first decades of the Cold War! Donors beware of the Cato Institute!

Further, the author even goes so far as to downplay an attempted coup d'etat in which the U.S. intelligence agencies were involved as a mere media manipulation attempt. He also rehashes the false claim about the non-existing Iraqi weapons of mass distraction.

"... More recently, the news media disseminated allegations that Saddam Hussein had a vast arsenal of weapons of mass destruction. Nearly all that information came from Iraqi exiles that the CIA supplied to “friendly” journalists, including New York Times reporter Judith Miller. Perhaps most striking, major media outlets, especially the Washington Post, the New York Times, CNN and MSNBC, have avidly joined the national security state’s campaign to demonize Russia. Those media heavyweights enthusiastically promoted the false narrative about collusion between Donald Trump’s campaign and the Russian government to influence the 2016 presidential election. Even worse, they parroted the CIA’s unsupported, far‐​fetched allegation that Moscow had paid the Taliban bounties to kill American soldiers. ..."

How the National Security State Manipulates the News Media | Cato Institute The American people, who count on the news profession to provide them with accurate, independent information about foreign affairs, are the ultimate victims.