Top US corporate media networks like CNN and NBC have hired a slew of former CIA, Pentagon, and State Department spooks as analysts, who are spreading pro-war talking points on air. By Ben Norton Americans frequently boast of how free and independent their press ostensibly is. Overlooking the fact that, according to the watchdog group Reporters Without Borders, media freedoms in the United States come in at a measly 43rd place globally, some of the liberties that do indeed exist are being whittled … Continue reading Corporate media hires CIA, Pentagon officials as talking heads – and they’re pushing for more war