... and filled them up with echos of conclusions convenient to their short term ends, do we really believe that thirty years later, they have maintained an independent invisible media network that is filled with coherent analysis, unpolluted by the combination of half truths and outright lies that were required to reach those conclusions convenient to those short term ends?

I've been accused of being a Marxist, yet while Harpo's my favourite, it's Groucho I'm always quoting. Odd, that.