CNN Exposed: Paid by Foreign & Domestic Govt Agencies For Specific Content

Corporations often shape the news as well. When I was in college, studying public relations, several of my professors estimated (based on industry experience working with major networks like CNN) that 40% of news stories originate from PR offices. In other words, PR people provide the newscasters with detailed pitches or even entire segments.

I don't think this is always a bad thing, but it's something to be aware of as a consumer of media.

Great claims require greater proof. Is it possible to get some more 1st-hand details and interviews to support these claims?

This sounds familiar. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Mockingbird

Is it still news that Anderson Cooper was concurrently CIA/CNN. Is that any different?

Makes you wonder which other news outlets are in the pay of the governments. BBC?

The BBC is in the pay of a major government, yes (funded mostly from taxation), although it seems swayed by the domestic political class as a whole and not merely by the government of the day.

If she's such a great investigative journalist, where's her proof?

Wait just a second...

Her interview with alex jones is a year old

And the article is almost 2 months old.