Carl Bernstein's article "The CIA and the Media:How America’s Most Powerful News Media Worked Hand in Glove with the Central Intelligence Agency and Why the Church Committee Covered It Up" from the Oct. 1977 Rolling Stone magazine, seems apropo for an update right now, don't you think ? See
http://www.class.uidaho.edu/mickelsen/Medi...the%20Media.htmwith the snippet :
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Time and Newsweek magazines. According to CIA and Senate sources, Agency files contain written agreements with former foreign correspondents and stringers for both the weekly news magazines.
The same sources refused to say whether the CIA has ended all its associations with individuals who work for the two publications. Allen Dulles often interceded with his good friend, the late Henry Luce, founder of Time and Life magazines, who readily allowed certain members of his staff to work for the Agency and agreed to provide jobs and credentials for other CIA operatives who lacked journalistic experience."
By the way, check out the great work CNN did with its Army embedded Pysops in the newsroom during the 2000 election at
http://www.counterpunch.org/cnnpsyops.html .... and you thought they only worked with the Army recently ? Maybe they're there for the 2004 election for all we'd know.
Time Magazine owes us all an apology, unless this is more of the intelligence community's "Disinformation" campaign, in that case a secret 'thank you' to the editors should be emailed to them !
