George Soros,CIA., American liberal

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Subject: Re: George Soros,CIA., American liberal press, Atlantic Montly, The New Republic, 

dawn star wrote:
resending as appears has been lost in cyberspace, sorry if duplicates,
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> Re: The American liberal press, Atlantic Montly, The New Republic,
> George Soros  & the CIA...(fr Michael Eisenscher
> <meisenscher@xxxxxxxxxxx>,Conference "labr.party"
> <labr.party@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>)
> 
> If not interested, delete now.
> 
> >From a recent post on the Net, to be posted soon on UVI/EuroBurmanet
> (anyone who wants the very well documented article -20 pages - on the
> CIA, and American media can contact me ask for it),  it cites The
> Atlantic Monthly, which published George Soros' article in January. In
> view of whats published here, it raises eyebrows, and its something to
> think about...From Skull& Bones and all the other secret bastions of
> power, for the CIA, there is only one way to see the world- cia or
> non-cia, friend or enemy, and that mentality, runs through a lot of
> media centers and corporate board rooms, where what is not said is
> sometimes more influential that what is said, like in the press, what is
> not written, is often closer to the truth.
> 
> If you have studied the American liberal press since world war I, it all
> fits into the puzzle of American superpower world order. And do not
> forget, Washington is a Company town...
> 
> Dawn Star, paris
> 
> ps You may know a few of the names listed at the end of this post.
> 
> " In the handful of self-critical articles about the media that
> appeared twenty years ago, the matter of CIA connections with
> executives,
> editors, and reporters was emphasized. While this makes for good copy
> and is certainly worth repeating, it also fails to challenge American
> journalism at it weakest point: the corrupting influence of fame and
> fortune. Someone who has looked at this issue recently is James Fallows,
> formerly of Atlantic Monthly. Fallows argues in his recent book,
> Breaking
> the News: How the Media Undermine American Democracy, that his
> profession
> is becoming seriously compromised. "
> 
> " Journalists at Work: Who's Watching the Watchdogs?
> 
> "      In the handful of self-critical articles about the media that
> appeared twenty years ago, the matter of CIA connections with
> executives,
> editors, and reporters was emphasized. While this makes for good copy
> and is certainly worth repeating, it also fails to challenge American
> journalism at it weakest point: the corrupting influence of fame and
> fortune. Someone who has looked at this issue recently is James Fallows,
> formerly of Atlantic Monthly. Fallows argues in his recent book,
> Breaking
> the News: How the Media Undermine American Democracy, that his
> profession
> is becoming seriously compromised.
> 
>  "     The name recognition that comes from flaccid punditry can be
> lucrative
> on the lecture circuit. Or if you have a name already, perhaps by doing
> something useless or naughty at the White House, you can acquire pundit
> status by writing a kiss-and-tell book. Big stars such as Cokie Roberts
> can collect five figures simply by offering up flattering platitudes at
> a
> corporate convention.
> 
>  "    Another problem is the revolving door between the media and
> government. It's considered a badge of honor for a journalist to have
> spent time working for the White House, whereas it should be seen as a
> conflict of interest. Some suggest that it's okay to make the switch
> once
> -- Bill Moyers can call himself a journalist after working for Lyndon
> Johnson, but David Gergen has been spinning through the door so often
> that
> it makes the rest of us dizzy. Gergen flacked for Nixon, Ford, Reagan
> and
> finally Clinton, and between administrations he was an editor at U.S.
> News & World Report and a commentator for PBS. Come to think of it,
> James
> Fallows himself, the new editor at U.S. News & World Report, was the
> chief
> speech writer for Jimmy Carter.
> 
> Pundits and superstars aside, the larger problem is that the media
> is owned by the ruling class. With the increased media centralization of
> the last twenty years, their lock on the masses is now so complete that
> when they maintain an appearance of objectivity, it's only out of habit.
> (Sentences containing the words "ruling class" are scribbled self-
> consciously these days -- a measure of how well they have cornered the
> market on perception, and perverted what class consciousness we once
> had into a mass-consumer consciousness.)
> 
> "      How can one distinguish between news and propaganda when the
> overlaps
> and interlocks are so pervasive? John Chancellor was with NBC, then with
> Voice of America, and then again with NBC. John Scali was with ABC, and
> then with Nixon, and then again with ABC. Ben Bradlee, of Watergate and
> Washington Post fame, was once a propagandist in Paris, taking orders
> from
> the CIA station chief, and was friends with James Angleton. Bradley's
> sister-in-law was Mary Meyer, divorced from Cord Meyer. She was JFK's
> lover, and her 1964 murder was never solved. Robert John Myers was in
> the
> CIA for twenty years, at one time as an assistant to William Colby, and
> became publisher of the New Republic in 1968. Generoso Paul Pope, Jr.
> was in the CIA the year before he bought the National Enquirer in 1952.
> Laughlin Phillips, co-founder of the Washingtonian, was in the CIA for
> fifteen years. Former top CIA officials Cord Meyer, Jr. and Tom Braden
> became columnists (unlike Braden, Meyer rarely talks about his CIA
> career). George R. Packard and L. Bruce van Voorst were with the CIA
> before they joined Newsweek, and Philip Geyelin worked for the CIA while
> on leave from the Wall Street Journal.
> 
>   "    There's always Katharine Graham, one of the world's richest
> women,
> who is now recognized as a victim of the male-dominated culture because
> her new autobiography says it's so. In a 1988 speech at CIA
> headquarters,
> Graham warmed to her audience: "We live in a dirty and dangerous world.
> There are some things the general public does not need to know and
> shouldn't. I believe democracy flourishes when the government can take
> legitimate steps to keep its secrets, and when the press can decide
> whether to print what it knows."
> 
> "     Here is a list of some pundits, news anchors, columnists,
> commentators, reporters, editors, executives, owners, and publishers.
> This list was compiled much too quickly, merely by scanning the 1995
> membership roster of the Council on Foreign Relations -- the same CFR
> that issued a report in early 1996 bemoaning the constraints on our
> poor,
> beleaguered CIA. It's not a wallet-size card, but keep it handy somehow.
> The next time someone denounces all conspiracy theories as wacky, check
> out the name. You might not be surprised.
> 
>      By the way, first William Bundy and then William G. Hyland edited
> CFR's flagship journal Foreign Affairs between the years 1972-1992.
> 
> Bundy was with the CIA from 1951-1961, and Hyland from 1954-1969.
> 
> <pre>
> Roone Arledge                   Peter Grose                     Walter H. Pincus
> Sidney Blumenthal               Jim Hoagland                    Norman Podhoretz
> David Brinkley                  Warren Hoge                     Dan Rather
> Tom Brokaw                      David Ignatius                  Stephen S. Rosenfeld
> William F. Buckley, Jr.         Robert G. Kaiser                A. M. Rosenthal
> James E. Burke                  Marvin Kalb                     Jack Rosenthal
> Hodding Carter III              Peter R. Kann                   Diane Sawyer
> John Chancellor                 Anne Karalekas                  Daniel L. Schorr
> George Crile III                Joe Klein                       Robert B. Semple,
> Jr.
> Arnaud de Borchgrave            Morton Kondracke                Hedrick L. Smith
> Karen DeYoung                   Charles Krauthammer             George
> Stephanopoulos
> Christopher S. Dickey           Irving Kristol                  Strobe Talbott
> Joan Didion                     Jim Lehrer                      Laurence A. Tisch
> Leonard Downie, Jr.             Joseph Lelyveld
> 
> (ebn. i have through the years spoken to, been guests of, and had some
> rather close
> encounters with several of the above mentionned names. None of this is
> at all terribly surprising. Interesting, but not surprising.)