Free Speech: Myth vs Reality
The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) recently acknowledged the practice of hiring journalists vetted by MI5 , the UK intelligence agency, to keep out the "subversives". The CIA is believed to have driven American investigative reporter Gary Webb to suicide after he exposed the agency's use of drug deals to fund Contra rebels in Nicaragua. American researcher Joseph Overton has described a spectrum from "more free" to "less free", known as the Overton Window, with regard to the US government intervention in the media. Here's how American philosopher Noam Chomsky has explained the US establishment's media management strategy: “The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate within that spectrum." It seems that " free speech " in the West is really not so free. Courtesy David Icke MI5 Vetting of BBC Staff: The BBC recen...