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I asked, concisely and simply, what was being hidden from us. Most of them just berated me, one user claimed the Syria conflict to which I provided a link to a recent UN Statement on which quite accurately reflected the conflict start to finish. Another user claimed that the recently declassified Nixon era documents about the Chilean revolution and coup, but I was able to find a 1973 archived Newspaper accusing the Nixon Admin of having a hand in it from Times Magazine meaning it was already a mainstream theory at the time.
Theres actually some truth to the Chilean coup claim, according to declassified documents about funding a Chilean Propaganda Magazine and cooperating with the copper mining companies, but the point is that newspapers of the time were openly talking about that claim.
For example, this TIME magazine article from October 1973: LINK
While it’s certainly flattery for the Nixon admin, it’s clear that this was a mainstream idea.
That was for the 1970 attempts, though, which were miserable failures and did not continue past '71 to my knowledge.
The successful 1973 coup caught the CIA off-guard, and was largely predicated on hostility from the military brass - including internal discussions among them of possible leftist involvement in the post-coup government. Allende chose to trust, in particular, Pinochet, who had successfully cultivated an ‘apolitical’ reputation (but apparently was one of the furthest right of them all).
It would be difficult to argue that Allende’s downfall owed much to media of any kind, much less capitalist media.