rnote: I am not endorsing Oliver Stone, just noticed he at least is willing to say that the CIA is in the news business. This was well known and the topic of public hearings .
Excerpt From Wikipedia:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Mockingbird#Congressional_investigations
After the Watergate scandal in 1972–1974, the U.S. Congress became concerned over possible presidential abuse of the CIA. This concern reached its height when reporter Seymour Hersh published an exposé of CIA domestic surveillance in 1975.[8] Congress authorized a series of Congressional investigations into Agency activities from 1975 to 1976. A wide range of CIA operations were examined in these investigations, including CIA ties with journalists and numerous private voluntary organizations.
The most extensive discussion of CIA relations with news media from these investigations is in the Church Committee's final report, published in April 1976. The report covered CIA ties with both foreign and domestic news media.
For foreign news media, the report concluded that:
The CIA currently maintains a network of several hundred foreign individuals around the world who provide intelligence for the CIA and at times attempt to influence opinion through the use of covert propaganda. These individuals provide the CIA with direct access to a large number of newspapers and periodicals, scores of press services and news agencies, radio and television stations, commercial book publishers, and other foreign media outlets.[9]
Getting hired to read papers( in other languages and English) while sifting falsified dossiers and top secret papers is par for the course. Add to the fact most Journalists are low IQ retards you can sway a country.
Re: “films bashing US Army & CIA can’t go public”
LOL - yeah, because they can’t make enough money to break even!
Stone is an idiot. I can listen to government funded anti-americanism every day on NPR and PBS. And practically every movie that is produced in Hollywood today is more wokester commie swill. The cries of “revolution” from addle-pated geriatric hippies, like Stone and Crazy Bernie, are just demented noise. These scumbags own everything now. They’ve all gone mainstream. The idea that these hucksters just can’t get their propaganda out there because of some “vast right wing conspiracy” is not only ludicrous now, i’ts flat-out insane.
“...with producers using financial restraints to censor movies challenging the US military or the CIA.”
Amazing, exactly how Hollyweird should work, and he’s bitchin’ about it.
I like Oliver Stone films in general, but I think his version of the ‘facts’ here are not correct. I won’t say he hasn’t faced pressure to not show certain negative aspects of the US military, because how would I know? However, the record just does not show a lack of anti-military, anti-CIA sentiment in movies since 2001 like he states:
For instance, we have seen way too much of is PTSD related plots, which are in fact anti-military, these are some of the famous ones:
-Harsh Times
-The Hurt Locker
-Brothers
-American Sniper
-Gran Torino
-In The Valley Of Elah
Then there’s no shortage of anti-intelligence movies:
-The Bourne Trilogy
-Snowden (<-—Oliver Stone!)
-Syriana
-The Good Shepherd
-The Green Zone
-The Interpreter
-Mission Impossible Rogue Nation
-Shooter
If OS thinks it’s hard to call out the US military and CIA, he should try criticizing the Chicoms.
He’d be out on the street in a heartbeat.
Whatever Oliver Stone’s opinion is, what it isn’t is naturally NOT GOOD FOR THE USA.
The man hates us and USA.
You mean like
“Lions to Lambs”
“The Green Zone”
“Jarhead”
Like those kinds of military bashing films that can’t be produced?
Stone just made some real clunkers. Hollywood noticed.
What a joke. There was a rash of anti-military movies from
2002 on. It’s part of the reason that I rarely go to the movie theater.
he means the military and CIA won't PAY him to bash them...