• asteriskeverything@lemmy.world
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      9 months ago

      CiA agents carefully and selectively misinforming the public on small details trickled in to manipulate public and congress opinion.

      Then Kool Aid man comes in and makes it a team sport and suddenly the truth doesn’t matter to the public anymore. In fact it probably never did.

      • Chakravanti@sh.itjust.works
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        9 months ago

        “Journalism is printing what someone else does not want printed; everything else is public relations.”

        -George Orwell

        Apparently the CIA just Nixoned that because even I am close to not being able to tell the gorramn difference.