Also, that's a real thing. It was where the CIA illegally wiretapped a few reporters because they were trying to figure out who their sources were. These reporters had published classified material, so the CIA was tasked by the Kennedy administration with figuring out who was doing that leaking.

I understand that you believe that Operation Mockingbird is about the CIA taking over the media in the 1950s, but unfortunately, that is not what it was. In 2007, a report called Family Jewels was declassified. Are you aware of this? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Run the Family Jewels. I remember it. It ran down all the things that the CIA had done that would probably be considered illegal. In the report, there was mention of something called Project Mockingbird, which was described thusly. Quote, Project Mockingbird, a telephone intercept activity, was conducted between 12th of March 1963 and 15th of June 1963 and targeted two Washington-based newsmen who at the time had been publishing news articles based on and frequently quoting classified materials of this agency and others, including top secret and special intelligence. The CIA were spying on journalists trying to ascertain how they had top secret intel.