QUOTE A DAY - May 10, 2011
Greetings fellow quote lovers:
Today's issue is special to me. I have long noted the way mainstream media seems to support a foreign policy objective that stands is amazingly unified.
The media trumpeted WMDs in Iraq and basically rubber stamped the war in Iraq from the beginning. The latest war in Libya where we killed the dictator's grandchildren did not seem to bother our media as they trumpet the latest policy fiasco.
Why?
Today's issue has quotations that just might lead us to the answer. But everything begins with the question; W-H-Y?
Best,
JA
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*---- Quotes For The Week ----*
The Central Intelligence Agency owns everyone of any significance in the major media.
--William Colby, former CIA Director, quoted by Dave Mcgowan, Derailing Democracy
You could get a journalist cheaper than a good call girl, for a couple hundred dollars a month.
--CIA operative, discussing the availability and prices of journalists willing to peddle CIA propaganda and cover stories. Katherine the Great, by Deborah Davis
Senator William Proxmire has pegged the number of employees of the federal intelligence community at 148,000...though Proxmire's number is itself a conservative one. The "intelligence community" is officially defined as including only those organizations that are members of the U.S. Intelligence Board (USIB); a dozen other agencies, charged with both foreign and domestic intelligence chores, are not encompassed by the term....The number of intelligence workers employed by the federal government is not 148,000, but some undetermined multiple of that number.
--Jim Hougan, Spooks
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**--- MYSTERY QUOTE ---**
All great truths begin as blasphemies.
See at the bottom for the answer
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*---- More Quotes for the Week ----*
The Agency's relationship with [The NY] Times was by far its most valuable among newspapers, according to CIA officials. [It was] general Times policy ...to provide assistance to the CIA whenever possible.
--The CIA and the Media, by Carl Bernstein
There is quite an incredible spread of relationships. You don't need to manipulate Time magazine, for example, because there are [Central Intelligence] Agency people at the management level.
--William B. Bader, former CIA intelligence officer, briefing members of the Senate Intelligence Committee, The CIA and the Media, by Carl Bernstein
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MYSTERY QUOTE AND ANSWER - DID YOU GUESS CORRECTLY?
All great truths begin as blasphemies.
MYSTERY ANSWER: George Bernard Shaw
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