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Traditional lines of communication between the people and the press have fallen into such disrepair in America that a whole new approach is necessary to challenge the military-industrial-governmental complex, according to a former CIA analyst sympathetic to WikiLeaks.
"The Fourth Estate is dead," Ray McGovern, of Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity, told Raw Story in an exclusive interview. "The Fourth Estate in his country has been captured by government and corporations, the milit
"That was very powerful back then," McGovern said. "And just a century later you get Tom Paine, James Madison. You know what Thomas Jefferson said? He said if we have to make a choice between having a government and having a press, I’ll go for the press every time. He understood that any government without a free press will resort to despotism."
In old days men had the rack. Now they have the press. That is an improvement certainly. But still it is very bad, and wrong, and demoralizing. Somebody — was it Burke? — called journalism the fourth estate. That was true at the time no doubt. But at the present moment it is the only estate. It has eaten up the other three. The Lords Temporal say nothing, the Lords Spiritual have nothing to say, and the House of Commons has nothing to say and says it. We are dominated by Journalism~Oscar Wilde
Originally posted by unityemissions
From a former CIA analyst....
While I agree that the press is morally bankrupt, I think something is very, very fishy about WL, and also this guys comments....
Divide and Conquer!!!
Originally posted by unityemissions
From a former CIA analyst....
While I agree that the press is morally bankrupt, I think something is very, very fishy about WL, and also this guys comments....
Divide and Conquer!!!
-- David Rockefeller in an address to a Trilateral Commission meeting in June of 1991
We are grateful to the Washington Post, the New York Times, Time magazine and other great publications whose directors have attended our meetings and respected the promises of discretion for almost forty years. It would have been impossible for us to develop our plan for the world if we had been subject to the bright lights of publicity during those years. But, the world is now more sophisticated and prepared to march towards a world-government. The supranational sovereignty of an intellectual elite and world bankers is surely preferable to the National autodetermination practiced in past centuries.
Originally posted by On the Edge
An oldie but a goodie here:
-- David Rockefeller in an address to a Trilateral Commission meeting in June of 1991
We are grateful to the Washington Post, the New York Times, Time magazine and other great publications whose directors have attended our meetings and respected the promises of discretion for almost forty years. It would have been impossible for us to develop our plan for the world if we had been subject to the bright lights of publicity during those years. But, the world is now more sophisticated and prepared to march towards a world-government. The supranational sovereignty of an intellectual elite and world bankers is surely preferable to the National autodetermination practiced in past centuries.
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Originally posted by muzzleflash
I would argue that the '4th Estate' has been dead in the US since the war of 1812, if not prior to that date.
Free press hasn't been free for a very long time.
Originally posted by backinblack
reply to post by airspoon
It's really old news...
Years ago a certain group with plenty of money bought the opinions of the people by buying up the majority of media.
They have continued that trend by buying up most new outlets that have started.
This includes News Papers, TV, and Film..
It's a very powerfull tool in getting their views accepted as truth..
But it's far from breaking news..
I have seen multiple threads on ATS regarding the takeover..
"Luckily, there is a Fifth Estate," he said. "The Fifth Estate exists in the ether. It’s not susceptible of government, of corporations, or advertisers or military control. It’s free. That is very dangerous to people who like to make secrets and to make secret operational things. It’s a huge threat. And the Empire – the Goliath here – is being threatened by a slingshot in the form of a computer and a stone through these emissions thrown into the ether to our own computers."