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The Rockefeller family denied any involvement in the decision to send in militiamen, but
as countervailing evidence began to surface, proving their complicity in the massacre,
John D. Rockefeller, Jr., was convinced that something had to be done. Ivy Lee was hired
by the Rockefeller family to “secure publicity for their views...”

Lee’s work following Ludlow consisted of producing a series of circulars entitled “Facts
Concerning the Strike in Colorado for Industrial Freedom.” Between June and September
1914, these nationally distributed broadsides came out every four to seven days...

Lee’s dispatches, for example, routinely exaggerated the salaries received by union
organizers - the bulletins were designed to simulate objective evidence, proving that the
pillage at Ludlow was the work not of the mine operators and their armies, but of “well
paid agitators sent out by the union.”

One bulletin presented distorted documentation purporting to demonstrate that editorial
sentiment in Colorado’s newspapers was overwhelmingly against the strikers.
Disregarded in this report was the fact that those editors who were surveyed all worked
for papers run by the coal companies.

Another bulletin offered an authentically couched report from Helen Grenfell, identified
simply as the “Vice President of the Law and Order League of Colorado.” Her apparently
first hand account certified that the battle at Ludlow was initiated by the strikers...
Unmentioned in the report were the facts that Grenfell was not, in fact, an eyewitness to
events at Ludlow and that she was the wife of a railroad official whose company profited
from carrying Colorado coal.
[Source: PR! A History of Spin, Stuart Ewen]

People of God, such reports are not exceptional. They are the norm in the media today.
Stories are reported in such a way that critical information is withheld from the public, and
that which is reported is biased, and often filled with distortions of the truth. So pervasive
is the false reporting of the media that the masses of men and women have lost all sense of
reality. They believe the world is what is portrayed before them on television, in newspapers
and magazines, on the Internet and radio.

The invisible government, those whom Edward Bernays, Gustave Le Bon, and Ivy Lee
referred to as an “intellectual aristocracy,” consists of immensely wealthy bankers and
corporate tycoons such as the Rockefellers, and the Rothschilds. The practices that proved
so effective in defending their corporate interests generations ago are now employed on a
national and even global scale. The major media is owned by a close knit group of global
power brokers who employ its massive influence to create illusions of reality, and to thereby
govern and control the masses.

Those who own the media do not wait for news stories to come along, and then merely spin
the accounts to serve their own interests. They manufacture the news events.

As Bernays explained it, “the engineer of consent must create news.” He must
orchestrate public occurrences so they will be noticed and will harvest the acquiescence