"Independent" is often used by American media when describing pro-western publications backed by the CIA. https://www.nytimes.com/1977/12/26/archives/worldwide

"Independent" is often used by American media when describing pro-western publications backed by the CIA. https://www.nytimes.com/1977/12/26/archives/worldwide-propaganda-network-built-by-the-cia-a-worldwide-network.html https://www.nytimes.com/1977/12/26/archives/worldwide-propag... >In its persistent efforts to snape world opinion, the C.I.A. has been able to call upon a separate and far more extensive network of newspapers, news services, magazines, publishing houses, broadcasting stations and other entities over which it has at various times had some control. I don't think the internal affairs of Belarus ought to be the concern of Americans.