The CIA owns everyone of any significance in the major media." — former CIA Director William Colby

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/cia-used-infiltrate-media-now-cia-media

This isn’t Operation Mockingbird. It’s so much worse. Operation Mockingbird was the CIA doing something to the media. What we are seeing now is the CIA openly acting as the media. Any separation between the CIA and the news media, indeed even any pretence of separation, has been dropped.