• @NocturnalMorning
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    A spokesperson who phoned the author at 10:36 p.m. Eastern Standard Time on Friday spent the majority of a more than 90 minute discussion attempting to pursuade this publication to stop digging into who was running the Safe Reach Solutions shell company: “I’m not trying to run you off a story, you can do whatever you want. Someone else is going to break that one,” the spokesperson continued, in an apparent reference to their process of burying the detail into a story at The Washington Post. “The next story to write if I’m you, is a piece about the humanitarian [aid] and hostages."

    What pieces of shit. He subtly threatened the person trying to interview him, telling them to leave the story alone and stop looking into it.

  • @[email protected]
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    Let me copy and paste that secondary title for my re-reading it when reviewing my comments later:

    “Or, how access journalism is used by the U.S. intelligence community to divert narratives away from their covert activity.”

    thank you

    edit: honestly i had long thought that TOP GEAR’s international episodes were part of the British espionage network.

    • John Richard
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      This 100%. Many of these “news” agencies are nothing more than PR firms & intelligence agency propaganda machines.