Pétition pour que le « #Washington_Post » évoque les affaires d’#Amazon avec la #CIA
▻http://ecrans.liberation.fr/ecrans/2014/01/08/petition-pour-que-le-washington-post-evoque-les-affaires-d-amazon-
Une pétition signée 30 000 fois demande que le journal, propriété du patron d’Amazon, mentionne le contrat de 600 millions de dollars entre le géant de la vente en ligne et la CIA. Le journal s’y oppose et insiste sur sa déontologie.
Why the Washington Post’s New Ties to the CIA Are So Ominous
▻http://my.firedoglake.com/nsolomon/2014/01/13/why-the-washington-posts-new-ties-to-the-cia-are-so-ominous
After creation of the CIA in 1947, it enjoyed direct collaboration with many U.S. news organizations. But the agency faced a major challenge in October 1977, when — soon after leaving the Washington Post – famed Watergate reporter Carl Bernstein provided an extensive expose in Rolling Stone.
Citing CIA documents, Bernstein wrote that during the previous 25 years “more than 400 American journalists … have secretly carried out assignments for the Central Intelligence Agency.” He added: “The history of the CIA’s involvement with the American press continues to be shrouded by an official policy of obfuscation and deception.”
Bernstein’s story tarnished the reputations of many journalists and media institutions, including the Washington Post and New York Times. While the CIA’s mission was widely assumed to involve “obfuscation and deception,” the mission of the nation’s finest newspapers was ostensibly the opposite.
During the last few decades, as far as we know, the extent of extreme media cohabitation with the CIA has declined sharply. At the same time, as the run-up to the U.S. invasion of Iraq attests, many prominent U.S. journalists and media outlets have continued to regurgitate, for public consumption, what’s fed to them by the CIA and other official “national security” sources.
The recent purchase of the Washington Post by #Jeff_Bezos has poured some high-finance concrete for a new structural bridge between the media industry and the surveillance/warfare state. The development puts the CIA in closer institutionalized proximity to the Post, arguably the most important political media outlet in the United States.