A New York Times report on the CIA's "mighty wurlitzer," their global propaganda network that included hundreds of journalists, editors, academics, publishing houses, newspapers, magazines and front companies. Although the Times piece is a limited hangout, it does provide some pieces of the puzzle.

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At 9 minutes Corbett stumbles reading. I don't think it's a typo.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parkinson's_law

Parkinson's law is the adage that "work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion". It is sometimes applied to the growth of bureaucracy in an organization.

 

(Not to be confused with Parkinson's law of triviality.)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_triviality

Parkinson's law of triviality is C. Northcote Parkinson's 1957 argument that members of an organization give disproportionate weight to trivial issues.