CNN : The Rotten Voice at the Core of Empire

Fingering England’s Mark Thompson (CEO of CNN Worldwide) or card-carrying Zionist David Zaslav, or the faceless David Lindsay (Senior Director CNN, News Standards & Practices) or the mega-wealthy family who founded the Discovery Channel , or arch-Zionist and former CNN head Jeff Zucker, as being the heinous culprits behind CIA propaganda / disinformation machine CNN, is probably not good enough.

The rot that afflicts the US Vile Empire’s establishment so well demonstrated by its private but de-facto official media voice — CNN — runs far deeper than the “leadership” of CNN-owner Warner Brothers Discovery. After all, who – or whom – pays the freight for Mark Thompson? Certainly not his Zionist-sympathizer wife, Jane Blumberg. And who — or whom — decided that a pro-Israel fixture like David Zaslav should head the entire suspect Warner Brothers Discovery shooting match?

One might hazard a guess that the CIA is somehow involved via Presidential Directive PDD-68*  which requires the CIA to sculpt and shape all major news media of the former United States, by law. But if so, that must be in cooperation with greater powers that set the policy in the shadows to whit the CIA itself operates.

Ultimately, paying Zaslav’s freight is Wall Street’s Vanguard Group, BlackRock and State Street which represent the largest shareholding blocs of Warner Brothers Discovery and thus by extension, WBD’s propaganda outlet CNN. Indeed, Vanguard Group owns large shareholding blocs of just about every major US corporate traded on Wall Street, including the MIC, where BlackRock and State Street follow close behind.

Despite its chimera of public-facing operatives, the Vanguard Group corporate structure is such that its political operations cannot and will not be made public. Political action groups funded by the group are unnamed and intentionally opaque; however clues about political donations by the Vanguard Group appear here: https://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/vanguard-group/summary?id=D000022305  …and note the name at the top of the list.

Finally, a bit of a warning about the miscreants listed above. Public availability of in-depth information on any of these characters is seriously limited. While research material may be found on any these individuals, detailed examination of their political views and policy determination made by these oligarchs is simply not available, and is deliberately obfuscated. Occasionally a public-facing complaint about CNN’s sympathy for Israel’s war criminal regime may appear, such as the Guardian article here from February of 2024, but such detail is rare in the west.

While the ‘free market’ will argue that private corporations may espouse any reasonable political policy they so desire, to do so via duplicitous, false, and misleading commentary vetted by the CIA via policy either whole or in-part set by nameless operators of opaque major Wall Street entities (which own most all major Wall Street publicly-traded corporations) is arguably a crime in itself. And it’s a media crime we see perpetrated worldwide by its coverage, every day.

Stave Brown

*An earlier version of PDD-68 mandating CIA participation in vetting and shaping US media reporting, was crafted by the Reagan regime.