"The government paid off major media outlets like Time, The Washington Post, The New York Times, CBS and others to publish government propaganda. Dubbed Operation Mockingbird, from 1948 to 1972 over 400 well-known domestic and foreign journalists, and over 300 newspapers and magazines were paid to report what the CIA told them to report. At least one movie, the animated “Animal Farm,” by George Orwell, was directly funded by the CIA. They also paid editors to keep anti-government reports out of the press. This was exposed in 1975 by the Church Committee."
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