Tag Archives: NBC News

Journalism–Ken Dilanian

21 September 2024 By in Journalism Tags: , , , , , , , , Leave a comment

Ken Dilanian was a CIA sycophant and government propagandist pretending to have been a reporter for the L.A Times and other news outlets. Dilanian, before publishing any national security stories, shared them with the CIA to obtain their approval to print. The spy agency instructed him in what he could and couldn’t publish, usually lies were approved while the truth languished in the discredited realm of the conspiracists.

After L.A. Times examined Dilanian’s emails, his government approved word smithing become known, and his work was disavowed by the paper in 2017. Dilanian is now working for NBC News as a justice and intelligence correspondent.

Through the years there have been rumors that the CIA had full-time employees seconded to all the major news outlets in the country. Carl Bernstein in 1977 said that upwards to 400 journalists were CIA plants and the most valuable employees or assets were at the New York Times, CBS, and Time.

Source: Muck Rack. The Intercept. CATO. Graphic: Ken Dilanian.

Journalism–NBC News 2012

24 August 2024 By in Journalism Tags: , , , Leave a comment

NBC News creatively edited a police phone record to create a racist narrative where none existed in the George Zimmerman shooting of Trayvon Martin in 2012.

George Zimmerman, performing on a neighborhood watch detail, called the local police to inform them there was ‘a real suspicious guy…’walking around, looking about.’  Shortly afterward Zimmerman claimed that the ‘suspicious guy’, who was black, violently confronted him and as a consequence Zimmerman fatally shot Martin. Zimmerman claimed it was self-defense and the police were unable to prove otherwise.

NBC News edited and broadcast Zimmerman’s call to the police making it sound like Zimmerman was a racist and had used a racial epithet. Zimmerman filed a lawsuit disputing NBC’s allegations.

NBC News initially ‘strongly disagree[d]’ with the accusations made in the complaint’ by Zimmerman but later NBCUniversal Media, owner of NBC News apologized for editing the phone call and let go three network and local NBC station employees.

Zimmerman lost his lawsuit against the network because he was unable to show that NBC acted with malice. Proving malice is the ‘Get Out of Jail Free’ card routinely used by the media to absolve itself of the consequences of false reporting.

Source: Zimmerman Sues NBC by McDowall, 2012, NBC News. Graphic: Partial Quote from Lincoln’s Second Inaugural Address 1865.