Sources:

Parenti, Democracy for the few.

https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1921/aug/05.htm

Ben Bagdikian, The New Media Monopoly Commission on Freedom of the Press, quoted in Robert Cirino, Don’t Blame the People The Sponsor, 1978 “Workers’ Political Rights Under Attack,” American Writer 2003.

https://twitter.com/HosamSalemG/status/1577607960246853635

Daniel Brandt, “Journalism and the CIA” Carl Bernstein, “The CIA and the Media” Helen Thomas, “Lap Dogs of the Press” Parenti, Inventing Reality
Gary Webb, Dark Alliance

https://web.archive.org/web/20010204214900/http://www.freedomforum.org/fpfp/specialprograms/tailwind1.asp