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injury. He wore an ill-fitting shirt, and refused makeup to cover his five-o’clock shadow.

In substance, the men were more evenly matched. In fact, those who listened to the debate on the
radio thought Nixon was the winner. But television viewers, who saw a still sickly Nixon,
disconcerted by Kennedy’s good looks, quickness, and charm, perceived Kennedy to be the winner
by a wide margin. The debates raised questions about the influence of television on the democratic
process, causing voters to consider the extent to which the presence of the television camera could
change the outcome of the debate...

The Pentagon’s PR Nightmare: The First Televised War

In 1965, the Viet Nam War became the first war to be televised. Footage of the brutality of the war
was broadcast nightly, helping fuel the country’s largest anti-war movement and diminish support
for the war. The movement became the most successful protest against a war in U.S. history, forcing
the U.S. government to accept withdrawal without victory. But the movement’s success led to a
military backlash against the press. Believing it had lost the war due to public opposition, the
Pentagon adopted a policy in the 1980s of using press pools, which gave the military control over
who could talk to troops and under what conditions...

The exercise of virtual censorship, combined with careful public relation campaigns, was intended
to insure that the public saw the military in the best light... The Pentagon used the media to
showcase its strength, and its management of the news - and the media’s acquiescence to it, for the
most part - produced a sanitized version of the war.
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Barbara Diggs-Brown declares only part of the truth. The media is fully in the control of the rulers
of the hidden government, the moneyed elite. The Illuminati, the small group of enormously wealthy
individuals who see themselves as the cognoscenti, the intelligent minority, own the media
corporations, control the purse-strings of the government, finance the wars, they own the
corporations which build the military’s hardware, and they fund and direct the think tanks such as
the Council on Foreign Relations which formulate government policy.

Newspapers, magazines, radio, movies, and television (and now the Internet), are all used by these
global masters to shape and guide the public mind. The task of mind control is performed skillfully,
secretly, and effectively. Even the opposition is controlled, as these masters of deceit set the narrative
on the political right and the political left. Fox News and MSNBC, far from being adversaries, are
operating in collusion at the highest levels. The massive corporations they belong to have
interlocking relationships, leading back to the same financial powers which exert such a profound
control over the globe.

The Pew Research Center produced a report in March of 2014 titled A Boom in Acquisitions and
Content Sharing Shapes Local TV News in 2013. The report showed that local news stations were
experiencing tremendous consolidation as they were being purchased by large corporations. Control
over the content of the national news had already been accomplished, and the next step was to
exercise control over the reporting of the local news.