That change had nothing to do with private media. It allowed the state department to broadcast its news segments (that they had been producing for years for overseas audiences) within US borders.
Operation Mockingbird started 70 years ago and despite the senate hearings that brought it to light, nothing was done to curtail such behavior going forward, and indeed it continued to flourish well before Obama was in the picture.
I don't say any of this to defend that piece of shit, but the whole "Obama legalized propaganda and that's why the media is so fucked" narrative is just flat out wrong.
No problem man. It's one of the more common misconceptions in conservative circles and still gets posted weekly over on the Donald. Most over there don't take being corrected about it well like you did though haha
That change had nothing to do with private media. It allowed the state department to broadcast its news segments (that they had been producing for years for overseas audiences) within US borders.
Operation Mockingbird started 70 years ago and despite the senate hearings that brought it to light, nothing was done to curtail such behavior going forward, and indeed it continued to flourish well before Obama was in the picture.
I don't say any of this to defend that piece of shit, but the whole "Obama legalized propaganda and that's why the media is so fucked" narrative is just flat out wrong.
Glad you chimed in about that. Allow me to post my favorite quote ever about the media:
Philip Graham of the Washington Post quotes a CIA operative that "You could get a journalist cheaper than a good call girl, for a couple hundred dollars a month."
Well shit.
Thank you for the correction at any rate.
No problem man. It's one of the more common misconceptions in conservative circles and still gets posted weekly over on the Donald. Most over there don't take being corrected about it well like you did though haha
I wouldn't be here if I didn't have the capacity to ingest new information and refine my worldview accordingly.
After all, if media wasn't fucked before Obama, how did he or many of his predecessors get in office?