Soulless corporations do, of course.
Corporations with grinning, double-breasted executives, interlocking directorates, labor squabbles and flying capital. The Westinghouse Evening Scimitar, The Atlantic-Richfield Intelligentser . It was conceived in the late 1940s, the most frigid period of the cold war, when the CIA began a systematic infiltration of the corporate media, a process that often included direct takeover of major news outlets. In this period, the American intelligence services competed with communist activists abroad to influence European labor unions. With or without the cooperation of local governments, Frank Wisner, an undercover State Department official assigned to the Foreign Service, rounded up students abroad to enter the cold war underground of covert operations on behalf of his Office of Policy Coordination.