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Department Of Homeland Security Still Controls What You Read Monday June 22 nd , 2015  at  11:23 AM MintPress News 1 Share Where Americans turn for news, U.S. intelligence agencies follow. And infiltrate. And monitor. MINNEAPOLIS —  With all of the establishment media owned by just a handful of corporations, six to be exact, it’s never been easier for the U.S. government to manipulate the news. A diversity of outlets, from websites to traditional newspapers, repeat the same stories to create an illusion of choice that allows propaganda to take root in the American imagination. Infiltration of the media by intelligence agencies has been standard practice since at least the 1950s, as exposed by  watchdog journalist Carl Bernstein  in a landmark 1977 report for Rolling Stone. “The use of journalists has been among the most productive means of intelligence‑gathering employed by the CIA,” wrote Bernstein. Although the public pressure created