[moneytide1]

"The natural bodies of administration which are traditionally either elected by people at large or appointed by elected leaders of society are being actively substituted by artificial bodies. Groups of people that nobody elected. As a matter of fact most of the people do not like them at all, yet they exist.

One such group is media - who elected them? How come they have so much monopolistic power over your mind? How come they have the nerve to decide what is good or bad for the elected president and his administration? Who are they?...

... Power structure slowly is eroded by groups of people who do not have neither qualifications nor will of people to keep them in power. Yet they do have power."

-Yuri Bezmenov, describing how to slowly infiltrate the culture of a targeted society [0]

[0] https://youtu.be/Y9TviIuXPSE?t=1003

[sofixa]

That's a very naive look. The term Fourth Estate / Power ( after the three executive, judiciary and legislative) traces its origins from 1787:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourth_Estate

Media, since it's mass existence, has always had an outsized, unelected influence. And it has never been a monopoly ( baring wartime censorship and control) because there have always been more than one institutions, which have an interest in competing, at least to some extent.

[zo1]

What's the story with "Yuri Bezmenov" in general? I'd really like to get a take on him from the HN crowd.