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[–] NocturnalMorning@lemmy.world 34 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

A spokesperson who phoned the author at 10:36 p.m. Eastern Standard Time on Friday spent the majority of a more than 90 minute discussion attempting to pursuade this publication to stop digging into who was running the Safe Reach Solutions shell company: “I'm not trying to run you off a story, you can do whatever you want. Someone else is going to break that one,” the spokesperson continued, in an apparent reference to their process of burying the detail into a story at The Washington Post. “The next story to write if I'm you, is a piece about the humanitarian [aid] and hostages."

What pieces of shit. He subtly threatened the person trying to interview him, telling them to leave the story alone and stop looking into it.

[–] Grapho@lemmy.ml 8 points 1 week ago

The most prestigious award for journalism is given out by the CIA, delivered at mach 1 speed

[–] TheReturnOfPEB@reddthat.com 32 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Let me copy and paste that secondary title for my re-reading it when reviewing my comments later:

"Or, how access journalism is used by the U.S. intelligence community to divert narratives away from their covert activity."

thank you

edit: honestly i had long thought that TOP GEAR's international episodes were part of the British espionage network.

[–] timewarp@lemmy.world 12 points 1 week ago

This 100%. Many of these "news" agencies are nothing more than PR firms & intelligence agency propaganda machines.

[–] geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 week ago

I'll take "headlines you won't hear in mainstream Western media for 100" Alex