"The CIA owns everyone of any significance in the major media" (attributed to Former CIA director, William Colby)
Mick West wants to "'see' 'evidence'" (that CIA director Colby actually said so)
https://www.metabunk.org/debunked-the-cia-owns-everyone-of-any-significance-in-the-major-media.t158/
http://www.internationalskeptics.com/forums/showthread.php?t=207647
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Of course, West and like-minded people don't seem to be able to "see" that such institutions: politicians, police in general and their acolytes, do not exactly live and function in a world primarily bound to factual reality (as scientists, engineers (and most other people?) do). So, to them "evidence" could mean anything from: "my boss told me so", "I saw some movie about it", "I need my salary and this is how I get paid", to simply "thinking otherwise would be 'un-American'" …
The somewhat more essential question that many seem to be forgetting about while dealing with fluff is: is the media in the U.S. actually PR in the way that Orwell defined it?:
"Journalism is printing what someone else does not want printed: everything else is public relations"
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IMO Orwell was a bit too cryptic, media-like, by "someone else" he meant: the government, the status quo, the powers that be.
Here is another opinion regarding the relationships between the government and the media by Glenn Greeenwald which makes whatever Colby said totally irrelevant:
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2012/aug/29/correspondence-collusion-new-york-times-cia
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West is not only dealing in paradoxical bluffs:
... "if a liar doesn’t explicitly admit to lying, or if he does, does that make him truthful?" ...
What I see as the most essential question is: "could that possibly work?" and the answer to that question Mick West and apparently a people at large doesn’t seem to be able to "see".