It is DANGEROUS to be a real journalist - or a whistleblower who talks to a journalist - today.

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[font size=2]Our government has become a viciously corrupt, authoritarian propaganda state that is actively strangling real journalism, persecuting real journalists, and growing its own lying narrative:[/font size]

Please give me more important links for this collection, and I will add them. Thank you.

Barret Brown was just sentenced for his part in disclosing the goverment sponsorship of the propaganda state
http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=6193809

Petition Calls On Obama Stop Intimidation Of Journalists And Whistleblowers
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10025509395

Why Is President Obama Keeping a Journalist in Prison in Yemen
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10023300531

James Clapper Calls Journalists "Criminal Accomplices" -
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1017174990

Reporters without Borders: 'Security interests threaten press freedom'
http://www.democraticunderground.com/11333723

US Plummets In Press Freedom Rankings
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10024487392

Obama's escalating war on Freedom of the Press
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10023314296

Risen Case: War on Journalism coming to a head
http://www.democraticunderground.com/101699216

Government Surveillance Is Crippling Press Freedoms, Report Shows
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10023902153

Mission Creep: When Everything is Terrorism
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10023279560

US Uses Espionage Act To Convict Manning Using Words Added In 1990: "with a computer"
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10023375845

Fed Court: Just changed interpretation of Espionage Act to cover leaks that are NOT Harmful To USA
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10023365713

NY Times: White House Uses Espionage Act to Silence Employees, Press
http://www.democraticunderground.com/101616764

Obama Has Charged More Under Espionage Act Than All Other Presidents Combined
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10023080388

Govt's slimy tactics to silence journalism: Claim to establish "protections" for whistleblowers, when what you are actually doing is creating categories through which you can exclude from protection those you don't want to protect.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10023708417
http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=4976955
http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=4976082
http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=4976955

The Obama administration/DOJ war on whistleblowers, federal unions
http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=5586389

Watergate whistleblower Daniel Ellsburg: Snowden would not get a fair trial today, was right to flee US
http://www.democraticunderground.com/11784497
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10023198130

Bradley Birkenfeld, UBS Whistleblower, Finds Himself in Federal Prison
http://www.cnbc.com//id/41257962

Obama taps "cognitive infiltrator" Cass Sunstein for Committee to create "trust" in NSA:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10023512796

Editor of major German newspaper says he planted stories for CIA
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10026163872

Salon: Obama confidant’s spine-chilling proposal: Cass Sunstein wants the government to "cognitively infiltrate" anti-government groups
http://www.salon.com/2010/01/15/sunstein_2/

The US government's online campaigns of disinformation, manipulation, and smear.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10024560097

Snowden: ‘Training Guide’ for GCHQ, NSA Agents Infiltrating and Disrupting Alternative Media Online
http://21stcenturywire.com/2014/02/25/snowden-training-guide-for-gchq-nsa-agents-infiltrating-and-disrupting-alternative-media-online/

The influx of corporate propaganda-spouting posters is blatant and unnatural.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=3189367

Propaganda Ban Repealed As Government Made News Floods U.S.
http://news.firedoglake.com/2013/07/15/propoganda-ban-repealed-as-government-made-news-floods-u-s/

U.S. Repeals Propaganda Ban, Spreads Government-Made News To Americans
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10023262111

The goal of the propaganda assaults across the internet is not to convince anyone of anything.*
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10023359801

The government figured out sockpuppet management but not "persona management."
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10023358242

The Gentleman's Guide To Forum Spies (spooks, feds, etc.)
http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=4159454

Seventeen techniques for truth suppression.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=4249741

Just do some Googling on astroturfing - big organizations have some sophisticated tools.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=1208351

[marym625]

1. exactly why the truth is so elusive

Within the US media.

K&R

[questionseverything]

2. barret brown was arrested after reporting on "endgame"

https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B6Fh3F6hufhDMGVjMUgxdXEwMzg/edit?pli=1

hastings accident happened after he tried to continue the investigation

[msanthrope]

4. Are you suggesting Michael Hastings was killed? nt

[bananas]

12. "Car hacked on 60 Minutes" - just watched this on TV, tonight!

They had Leslie Stahl drive a car, while they disabled the brakes, etc.

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/car-hacked-on-60-minutes/

Car hacked on 60 Minutes

No real security on the Internet -- even the military is under daily assault - says the man the Defense Department hired to make the web more secure

2015 Feb 06

Even the mightiest military in the world can be vulnerable on the Internet, just like everybody else who uses it. But the government agency that invented the Internet has a brilliant videogame inventor on its side working to make the web safer for all users, starting with the military. Lesley Stahl reports on the U.S. military's Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) and the man who heads its Information Innovation Office, Dan Kaufman, for a 60 Minutes story to be broadcast Sunday, Feb. 8 at 7 p.m. ET/PT.

<snip>

One of the vulnerabilities Kaufman and DARPA are working to eliminate that affects many is in the automobile. Cars today are loaded with computers networked to each other, and those can be hacked remotely. In a dramatic demonstration, he and his colleagues use a laptop computer to hack into a car being driven by Stahl. Much to her surprise, they were able to take control of many of the car's functions, including the braking and acceleration.

<snip>

[questionseverything]

15. good for 60 minutes

ty 4 info

[OnyxCollie]

3. K&R. nt

[WillyT]

5. K & R !!!

[Octafish]

6. This one is telling.

U.S. Repeals Propaganda Ban, Spreads Government-Made News To Americans
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10023262111

[Octafish]

7. Cass Sunstein, who helped get Bush and Cheney off the hook, salutes you!

Glenn Greenwald vs. Cass Sunstein -- Battle Royal, in their own words!
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1002797594

Everybody knows Rush Limbaugh. Who ever heard of Phil Zelikow?
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10025531491#post2
OP (no longer available from my puter): http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x2014785

Zelikow Appointed to Obama's Intelligence Advisory Board
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php/www.scn.org/www.travelblog.org/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=125x322548

Government Nanny Censoring "Conspiracy Theories" Is Also Responsible for Letting Bush Era Torture and Spying Conspiracies Go Unpunished
http://georgewashington2.blogspot.com/2010/10/main-obama-adviser-blocking-prosecution.html?m=1

Wanna Know Why We the People Really Don't Know Squat?
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10022862898

Why the Big Money goes into the Big Lie
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10024270441

[woo me with science]

8. Thanks for the links so far.

Please keep them coming.

[JEB]

9. K&R for the original post and subsequent informative posts and links.

[dissentient]

10. It is sad when the best we can say is - "At least we aren't as bad as North Korea...yet"

Oh well, freedom of the press is over rated anyhow. Whistle-blowers and investigative journalists often times make the elites and people in power very uncomfortable, by reporting about unpleasant things that they don't want to come to light, and we can't have that.

All hail the Homeland and our glorious empire! All good citizens have nothing to say but praise and admiration for the Fatherland, I mean, Homeland!

[Ramses]

11. Wow.. what a list

I didnt have time to even read half of them yet, but this is a good bookmarking thread.

[elias49]

13. Kick

Great links. Thanks a lot.

[JEB]

14. "The News" as presented in the mainstream

deserves a large dose of skepticism. Corruption and greed taint more than a bit of what you see on the TV.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

16. “News is what somebody somewhere wants to suppress; all the rest is advertising.” Lord Northcliffe

[woo me with science]

17. kick

[NuttyFluffers]

18. a mockingbird sings...

to whose tune does it play?

great stuff in those links.

[woo me with science]

19. kick