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<blockquote data-quote="rickyb" data-source="post: 3235867" data-attributes="member: 56035">jeremy scahill really goes into media in this intercepted podcast.First, Donald Trump recently went on a Twitter rampage against big corporate media outlets, specifically CNN and NBC. Now, I have no great love for either of these outlets. Both of these institutions have used the airwaves to promote U.S. government propaganda. They have retired U.S. military generals and admirals and CIA operatives on their payrolls as independent analysts, and they never disclose the conflicts of interest that some of these so-called experts have who profit from the very wars and conflicts that they’re supposedly giving their independent views on.I’ve always been clear about this and I’ve criticized both networks repeatedly, including on their own airwaves.Jeremy Scahill on CNN’s ‘Reliable Sources’: I also think that CNN and MSNBC and Fox are engaging in the Terrorism Expert Industrial Complex, where you have —Jeremy Scahill on MSNBC’s ‘All in with Chris Hayes’: There has been no serious, hard-hitting critique of the president’s foreign policy from the issues that actually are real. This thing with him —JS CNN’s ‘The World Right Now with Hala Gorani’:CNN needs to immediately withdraw all retired generals and colonels from its airwaves. You know, Fareed’s Zakaria, if that guy could have sex with this cruise missile attack, I think he would do it.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="rickyb, post: 3235867, member: 56035"] jeremy scahill really goes into media in this intercepted podcast. First, Donald Trump recently went on a Twitter rampage against big corporate media outlets, specifically [B]CNN and NBC. Now, I have no great love for either of these outlets.[/B] Both of these institutions have used the airwaves to promote U.S. government propaganda. They have retired U.S. military generals and admirals and CIA operatives on their payrolls as independent analysts, and they never disclose the conflicts of interest that some of these so-called experts have who profit from the very wars and conflicts that they’re supposedly giving their independent views on. I’ve always been clear about this and I’ve criticized both networks repeatedly, including on their own airwaves. [B]Jeremy Scahill on CNN’s ‘Reliable Sources’: [/B]I also think that CNN and MSNBC and Fox are engaging in the Terrorism Expert Industrial Complex, where you have — [B]Jeremy Scahill on MSNBC’s ‘All in with Chris Hayes’:[/B] There has been no serious, hard-hitting critique of the president’s foreign policy from the issues that actually are real. This thing with him — [B]JS CNN[/B]’[B]s ‘The World Right Now with Hala Gorani’[/B]:CNN needs to immediately withdraw all retired generals and colonels from its airwaves. You know, Fareed’s Zakaria, if that guy could have sex with this cruise missile attack, I think he would do it. [/QUOTE]

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