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The Paid-Propaganda-as-News Scam

The Paid-Propaganda-as-News Scam
The Capitol in Washington on Oct. 18, 2018. Samira Bouaou/The Epoch Times
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One of the biggest dirty secrets of the DNC Media Complex is that, for some time now, journalists and prominent media outlets have been receiving information—and in some cases, even money—from political operative groups on behalf of their clients.

I call this dirty secret the “Paid-Propaganda-As-News Scam.”

Over the past 10 years or so, numerous of these “propaganda shops” have sprung into existence around the periphery of U.S. news media.

Naturally, media outlets don’t want the public to know about these middlemen who provide information for the stories they produce. They want to maintain the illusion they are completely neutral truth-telling conveyors of just the facts in their coverage of daily events and in their opinion columns.

Brian Cates
Brian Cates
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Brian Cates is a former contributor. He is based in South Texas and the author of “Nobody Asked for My Opinion … But Here It Is Anyway!”
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