scroll down for "media manipulation" in this weblink from buzzflash
http://www.buzzflash.com/farrell/03/05/06.html""Media Manipulation
Operation Mockingbird, the CIA's plan to infiltrate America's newsrooms, was such a success that former CIA director William Colby boasted, "The Central Intelligence Agency owns everyone of any major significance in the major media." Carl Bernstein substantiated this, telling Rolling Stone that hundreds of journalists and news organizations were involved in this subversion. And though officials have been caught planting fabrications in the past (a PR firm concocted the "babies in incubators" story that swayed the Senate into supporting Bush #41's Gulf War), the current White House has perfected the art of propaganda.
"What's changed is that there's no shame anymore in doing it directly," media author and Harper's magazine publisher John MacArthur recently reported, alluding to the lies the Bush administration told regarding Iraq's weapons capabilities. "The concept of a self-governing American republic has been crippled by this propaganda," he mused. The whole idea that we can govern ourselves and have an intelligent debate, free of cant, free of disinformation, I think it's dead."
http://reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=ourWorldNews&storyID=2667151BTW, that Rolling Stone article was from Oct. 1977, so it needs updating !