Very nice work @richq11. I've also touched upon the subject in Part 1 - PROPAGANDA of my 'Top 5 Mass Mind Control Techniques used by the Elite (5 Part Series)'. Here are a few excerpts from it that can supplement your post (including Carl Bernstein, as you also mentioned):

One of the best illustrations of how they have infiltrated the mass media is how the CIA have planted "assets" throughout the news media (no only in the United States, but around the world, and particularly in Europe; here is a prime example of how they operate as per one of their whistleblowers Udo Ulfkotte who explained their MO (Modus Operandi, or way of working) from an RT interview a few years back:

Listen to it! You will learn how they manipulate the news to create propaganda in its place to deceive the masses.

Also, former Washington Post star reporter penned a (highly detailed and sourced) wonderful piece a while back which appeared in Rolling Stone Magazine entitled THE CIA AND THE MEDIA which demonstrates the extent to which this nefarious spy agency has spread its tentacles across the news media spectrum to influence and help brainwash the masses into wars and other atrocities offer the decades.