Click here to access article by Whitney Webb from MintPress News. (This post was by Caren, an activist from Titanic Lifeboat Academy. She kindly offered to write the introduction for me when my computer was not functioning yesterday. As you can see, it is much better than I could have done.)
Whitney Webb's exhaustive examination of intelligence agencies'
infiltrating and dominating capitalist mainstream "news" is the latest
effort to expose this symbiosis. From Carl Bernstein's 1977 Rolling Stone cover story, to Der Spiegel journalist Udo Ulfkotte's 2017 book which has been fully censored in the West, to William Arkin's ("Top Secret America") year-end email which Glenn Greenwald recapped January 3, 2019 in The Intercept,
to the entire career and martyrdom of Julian Assange, valiant attempts
have been made to alert a sleeping public to the fact that money/power
will protect itself by controlling news, what passes for "truth" and
"reality," and the behavior of the people who consume both. Webb's
article focuses on their latest weapon designed to make thinking easier
by doing it for you: a refined, Orwellian-titled Prop-or-Not upgrade
called The Trust Project.