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03/27/2008: "USA press is controlled"

At the same time, in the first few years after 9/11, stories that have now become frequent front-page fodder -- about water-boarding of terrorism detainees and other aggressive interrogations tactics, about CIA "black site" prisons overseas, or about covert eavesdropping or other surveillance programs that stretched the limits of the law -- simply didn't get written by most of the mainstream media. If we had known about them, which in most cases we didn't, there would have been a reluctance to publicize them in those early days of the war on terror.

[ The mainstream media manipulates the public like a shepherd herds sheep. At least the internet makes this harder for them. ]

http://www.slate.com/id/2187498/