Dear CCI Friends,
Misinformation and disinformation continues to explode across U.S. mainstream media. Does the New York Times believe Americans are so gullible that we will believe whatever they print? Yes.
Unfortunately, the first hyped-up rumor is what the average American reader will remember.
Experts opposing these rumors in less-read periodicals won’t count— the big PR damage has been done.
The article below is a case-in-point: Larry Johnson is a former CIA analyst. His article won’t be printed in the mainstream media. He will be picked up by sources with much less readership, even questionable sources, hence the original rumor will continue unabated in much of the public eye.
I don’t know Sic Semper Tyrannis or this CIA analyst, but he makes several excellent points that need to be factored into the rumor “Russians Pay Taliban Bounties to Kill US Troops”.