Parry’s 2004 Book: SECRECY and PRIVELAGE delivered a powerful message that summarized the case for government corruption with fact-based clarity.

By the 2000 Bush/Gore election, journalists were sufficiently intimidated by the right as “liberal media” that they were afraid not to bend in the direction of their consolidated and conservative owners.

One egregious example (page 318) is when Media critic for the Washington Post, Howard Kurtz ridiculed as “conspiracy theorists” those who thought Gore had won the 2000 election. The conservative-backed intimidation Kurtz’s accusation worked so well that liberals who dare dissent to protest a government lie have since been effectively dismissed as “conspiracy theorists”.

Parry spends a lot of time exploring the unbelievable events of 9/11 and how the media controlled the message. But in one exceptional instance, Bush claimed he saw the first plane hit the tower on a TV inside the school. But a subsequent Wall Street Journal article established that the school’s TV had been unplugged. “Plus, there was no footage shown of the first plane hitting the tower until late on the night of September 11th.” In nearly every case, Bush’s “brazen pattern of deception” had FOX News and conservative outlets protecting his flanks against dissidents and those un-patriotic “conspiracy theorists”.

On page 353, Parry writes: “This media imbalance has turned the concept of an independent watchdog press into a “broken toy” of the American political process. Another “broken toy” is the tradition of objective analysis in the US intelligence community”. For example, when “objective analysis” by Ambassador Joe Wilson found that no yellowcake uranium had been shipped from Niger to Saddam Hussein in Iraq, it was not enough to label Wilson as a “conspiracy theory”. Instead, the Whitehouse retaliated by dangerously and illegally exposing Wilson’s wife – Valerie Plame – in her undercover role as a CIA operative. This criminal act from the Whitehouse undermined years of earned trust Plame had tediously developed in her career protecting America.

The intimidation of the media is turning into a brand of state-controlled propaganda. Many people who are knowledgeable about world affairs from specialized sources are aware that corporate media has placed journalists under a “gag order” on covering important aspects of the Afghanistan war, Global Warming and the environment, covert and dangerous atmospheric experiments, illegal biological weapons experiments, illegal weather weaponization with toxic chemicals, consequences of Patriot Act and Military Commissions Act to gut the Bill of Rights with denial of Habeas Corpus, and more.

Readers are growing tired of paying for publications they know deliver little more than conservative, corporate bias with editors who remain employed by acting as gatekeepers with a choke-hold on the Truth.