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8 SEPTEMBRIE 2016
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What’s at stake in intelligence outsourcing is not just the
movement of money and goods, but also the security of the
American public and control over the information that keeps
us safe. Market concentration in this sector, therefore, has
deeper and more sinister implications than in civilian
industries such as finance or telecommunications.
Concentration means that fewer and fewer companies control
the information that guides our military and civilian leaders
and, by extension, shapes America’s view of the world and the
military and political actions it takes.
Probably the best analogy is the media itself, which have seen
incredible concentration over the past half-century. Consider
the prescient words of Ben Bagdikian, the late, great editor
and media critic. “When 50 men and women, chiefs of their
corporations, control more than half the information and
ideas that reach 220 million Americans, it is time for
Americans to examine the institutions from which they
receive their daily picture of the world,” Bagdikian wrote over
30 years ago in his classic study of the press, The Media
Monopoly. “Whether evil or benevolent, centralized control
over information, whether governmental or private, is
incompatible with freedom.” (Emphasis added.)