Their Boston trial coverage demonstrates conclusively that even our nation's newspaper of record is corrupt to the core
by Jim Fetzer
How many lies of enormous magnitude are the American people expected to accept from their government and the mass media, when it fuctions on its behalf? William Colby, former Director of the CIA, observed that “The agency owns everyone of any significance in the major media”, which Carl Bernstein had previously confirmed in his article, “The CIA and the Media” (Rolling Stone, 20 October 1977), in which agency officials boasted that their greatest successes had been with CBS, with Time Inc. and with The New York Times:Among the executives who lent their cooperation to the Agency were William Paley of the Columbia Broadcasting System, Henry Luce of Time Inc., Arthur Hays Sulzberger of the New York Times, Barry Bingham Sr. of the Louisville Courier-Journal and James Copley of the Copley News Service. Other organizations which cooperated with the CIA include the American Broadcasting Company, the National Broadcasting Company, the Associated Press, United Press International, Reuters, Hearst Newspapers, Scripps-Howard, Newsweek magazine, the Mutual Broadcasting System, The Miami Herald, and the old Saturday Evening Post and New York Herald-Tribune. By far the most valuable of these associations, according to CIA officials, have been with The New York Times, CBS, and Time Inc.Judging from its recent coverage of the Boston bombing trial, which The New York Times pretends is a legitimate judicial procedure based upon authentic evidence, nothing seems to have changed. The evidence in this case for concluding that this was a drill using amputee actors and special effects filming is overwhelming, where neither Tamerlan nor Dzhokhar Tsarnaev were responsible for the explosions or events thereafter. The Times insults our intelligence. How, for example, could Dzhokhar have run over his brother after Tamerlan had been arrested by the police?
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