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..In addition ,the history of the U.S. media shows unsettling developments,not least of which is penetration by the intelligence community.
By the early 1950s,the CIA had cosy relationships with most major media executives in America.
The most significant of these were with the New York Times, Washington Post, Christian Science Monitor, New York Herald Tribune, Saturday Evening Post, Miami Herald, Time-Life, CBS News, Scripps-Howard Newspapers, Hearst Newspapers, The Associated Press, United Press International, The Mutual Broadcasting System and Reuters.
In addition ,the CIA had major ownership over many proprietary publications throughtout Europe,Asia and the Americas.
By the early 1970s the agency admitted to having working relationships with over four hundred American journalists.
Consider the possiblities with four hundred strategically placed people throughout the mainstream media.
There is evidence that this relationship continues.
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Tabloids are full of UFO events, some of them genuine, most of them hoaxes. But still, respected press media have, rarely, published informative articles on the phenomenon, without ridiculization and mockery.
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MUFON Spokesperson Says Media Won’t Cover UFOs
In a feature story in this week’s issue of San Diego City Beat, San Diego Chapter MUFON Spokesperson Ed McBride said there is a “blackout” in the press when it comes to shedding new light on the UFO cover-up “except for the giggle-giggle factor.”
He said the reason for the cover-up is government interference.
“They’ve decided none of this can be in the open press because they don’t like to talk about anything anymore that they can’t explain,” says McBride. “They can talk about all kinds of serial killers, JonBenet Ramsey—but they decide. That’s what scares me, more than these UFOs. They selectively decide what we’re going to have for our evening news.”
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Originally posted by converge
Btw karl,
not sure if you're aware (I didn't see it mentioned) Terry Hansen has been recently on The Paracast.
Tim Binnall Interview:
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A longtime goal of binnall's was completed on August 11th, 2005, when he interviewed Terry Hansen, author of "The Missing Times", for BoA. In this in-depth interview, we discuss Hansen's background prior to writing his book, what brought him to studying the UFO/media connection, complicity v. conspiracy with regards to the media's coverage of the UFO phenomenon, historical precendence that suggests a government/media cooperative, local media v. national media, the role of propaganda and disinformation and the various methods used to employ them.
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Date / Time: 9/5/2008 12:00 PM
The UFO Town Meeting!
This show will deal with the UFO enigma andwhat the truth is. I will have on my show guests such as Dennis Balthaser, Stanton Friedman, and others pro and con that will show how the UFO Enigma has effected us in the world today!
..If the news media today is aware of such censorship practices, they do not report it. One reason is that officials simply deny that censorship takes place but another is that elite reporters don't ask about it. This "don't tell, don't ask" relationship has a long history. Although military spokesmen pretended to be open and cooperative with the press during the early years of the UFO crisis, this was a ruse. As Blue Book's Edward Ruppelt later put it, "Our policy on releasing information was to answer only direct questions from the press. If the press didn't know about a given UFO incident, they naturally couldn't ask questions about it. Consequently such stories were never released. In other instances, when the particulars of a UFO sighting were released, they were only the bare facts about what was reported. Any additional information that might have been developed during later investigations and analyses was not released."
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Interesting article about how the CIA sponsered Robertson Panel managed the 'public perception' of the UFO subject and concluded that it was 'in the best interest of the U.S. Government to suppress media coverage of UFO sightings'.
The Robertson Panel: UFOs and Ridicule
A major new article on the subject on government manipulation of UFO-themed media products is accessible from today as an advance publication for the Spring 2011 issue of 49th Parallel - a journal of North American Studies jointly run through the UK universities of Birmingham and Nottingham.
This is one of only a small handful of articles dealing with UFOs and entertainment-media-control ever to have been published in a peer-reviewed academic journal, and is all the more unusual in that it treats UFOs not as a mere cultural abstraction, but as a real, physical phenomenon of considerable concern to officialdom..
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Controversial Authors Terry Hansen and Louis A. Frank Die
Two revolutionary intellectuals, both authors of books that made people think, passed away recently this Spring.
Overnight on June 20, into June 21, 2014, nearing the Summer Solstice, journalist and researcher Terry Hansen died. Hansen was a ufologist and author of The Missing Times: News Media Complicity in the UFO Cover-up.
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