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Watching these "interview with officials" I always remember Manufacturing Consent by Edward Herman and Chomsky. It just explains so well the attitude, the approach, the type of questions asked, how they answered and how the presentation is done.

As a contrast, then there is a interview with Assange from a while back. It was immediately confrontational. He didn't have a chance to present his views or what the organization stands for, talk about "global persistent boogeymen", none of that. Reporter zoomed in on the rape (please, true or false?). And that's that. Due to the constraints and rules these agencies operate under and comparing the two approaches it is funny how similar the external effects to that of a state run propaganda agency. It is like having RT report on Putin pretty much.

John Miller might as well be a thawed out frozen sea bass and this piece might as well be a "released by NSA" PR piece. I would laugh normally as it is pretty funny, but this stopped being funny a while back, now it is just scary.