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troutfishing — Tue, 20 Jan 2004 07:42:22 -0800

"You could get a journalist cheaper than a good call girl, for a couple hundred dollars a month" (PDF, 112k) "The Covert News Network", on Project MOCKINGBIRD - "Watergate muckraker Carl Bernstein uncovered a list of over 400 reporters and a coterie of publishers and media moguls who had basically been rubber-stamping CIA propaganda since the 1950s." Alex Constantine on Mockingbird. "Investigators digging into MOCKINGBIRD have been flabbergasted to discover FOIA documents in which agents boast (in CIA office memos) of pride in having placed "important assets" inside every major news publication in the country. " ( from Geoff Metcalf on Mockingbird). Cheryl Seal on Mockingbird, with additional links. Enjoy the election!

By: troutfishing

troutfishing — Tue, 20 Jan 2004 07:59:36 -0800

Bear in mind, that's a couple of hundred 1950's dollars : translated into 2004 dollars that would be five to ten times as much, easily. I told them I'd need at least enough to cover the mortgage. They told me - "Sorry. You only qualify for our Blogger rates". Oh well. So much for being an "asset" (sniff .

By: Blue Stone

Blue Stone — Tue, 20 Jan 2004 08:05:13 -0800

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By: FormlessOne

FormlessOne — Tue, 20 Jan 2004 08:19:59 -0800

Fox News: Fair, Balanced, and Cheaper Than a Good Call Girl. It has a nice ring to it.

By: Steve_at_Linnwood

Steve_at_Linnwood — Tue, 20 Jan 2004 08:20:08 -0800

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By: troutfishing

troutfishing — Tue, 20 Jan 2004 08:37:19 -0800

FormlessOne - But does Fox swallow? For how much? Hmmm. Foxswallow. Foxwallow. Fox Wallow. If ever I write a novel...... Meanwhile, I think Fox reporters and editors are just fellow travellers. It's NPR that is really infested with assets.

By: nofundy

nofundy — Tue, 20 Jan 2004 10:28:49 -0800

That is the best post title I've seen troutfishing. Now is it OK if we call them media whores? That damn SCLM is responsible for all our troubles! Ha! Great resource. For more on our dear fourth column and its complicity with the shadow government be sure to read the Church report. Dave Neiwert covers it partially this week at Orcinus.

By: rough ashlar

rough ashlar — Tue, 20 Jan 2004 10:28:54 -0800

] posted by Steve_at_Linnwood Another well thought-out post Steve?

By: matteo

matteo — Tue, 20 Jan 2004 10:40:57 -0800

HIGGINS Turner! How do you know they'll print it? You can take a walk. But how far if they don't print it? TURNER They'll print it. HIGGINS How do you know?

By: Armitage Shanks

Armitage Shanks — Tue, 20 Jan 2004 11:24:23 -0800

What if there's another New York Times? Inside the New York Times.

By: FormlessOne

FormlessOne — Tue, 20 Jan 2004 11:25:21 -0800

Swallow? They gargle.

By: th3ph17

th3ph17 — Tue, 20 Jan 2004 12:30:20 -0800

it will happen like this, someday a chat window will open up....and Someone you know...possibly even a fellow blogger or Mefite will type your name.... *hands you a special warez disc* ...for that day.

By: Outlawyr

Outlawyr — Tue, 20 Jan 2004 12:43:00 -0800

So wait, for a little more money I could get a good call girl instead of a journalist? Sign me up!

By: troutfishing

troutfishing — Tue, 20 Jan 2004 13:43:09 -0800

nofundy - Thanks. Now, let me repeat - I did NOT say that NPR was infested with asshats.....I said assets! Outlawyr - But don't forget.....that's a couple of hundred bucks in 50's dollars! It could be cheaper to buy a journalist and then demand sex as a part of the deal. Then, you could still subcontract to the CIA !......you could almost get the sex for free. Of course, it would be sex with a journalist..... But FormlessOne informs me that they do swallow, at least (and probably more).

By: Satapher

Satapher — Tue, 20 Jan 2004 14:19:19 -0800

you boys is nasty

By: n9

n9 — Tue, 20 Jan 2004 15:48:41 -0800

Makes me think of when I worked at nytimes.com Bernanrd Gwertzman, the Editor of NYT's foreign desk for decades was the boss and it was well known that he was best buddies with Henry Kissinger and had been for a long, long, long time. Like, since Nixon was in the White House. He had a huge picture of Kissinger on the wall in his office, for crying out loud. Sigh.

By: Pressed Rat

Pressed Rat — Tue, 20 Jan 2004 20:34:22 -0800

"It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so." --Mark Twain

By: troutfishing

troutfishing — Tue, 20 Jan 2004 21:12:01 -0800

Plus ca change.........and I'll never learn to do those little french squigglies either. n9 - That's a nicely telling anecdote. Thanks. Henry K. iconography at the NYT. Oh boy. Satapher - As much so as we need to be but, for the record, I don't personally enjoy that sort of thing.

By: languagehat

languagehat — Wed, 21 Jan 2004 08:42:30 -0800

So where can I buy me one of them reporters? Are they on sale at WalMart?

By: Holden

Holden — Wed, 21 Jan 2004 08:45:48 -0800

Nice, matteo. Three Days of the Condor was on cable one Saturday afternoon not long ago. It should be re-released in theaters; it'll really raise viewers' paranoid quotient.

By: darren

darren — Wed, 21 Jan 2004 10:35:16 -0800

A lot of the articles' suppositions are a little off. Calling William Paley a reactionary is like calling George W. Bush a liberal.

By: troutfishing

troutfishing — Thu, 22 Jan 2004 20:26:26 -0800

darren - I don't know how to interpret that comment.