Post by Rob Caprio on May 9, 2019 21:04:35 GMT -5
All portions are ©️ Robert Caprio 2006-2024
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”There is no such thing, at this date in the world's history, in America, as an independent press. You know it and I know it.
There is not one of you who dares to write your honest opinions, and if you did, you know beforehand that it would never appear in print. I am paid weekly for keeping my honest opinion out of the paper I am connected with. Others of you are paid similar salaries for similar things, and any of you who would be so foolish as to write honest opinions would be out on the street looking for another job.
If I allowed my honest opinion to appear in one issue of my paper, before twenty-four hours my occupation would be gone. You know it and I know it. And what folly is this - toasting an independent press? We are the tools and vassals of rich men behind the scenes. We are the jumping jacks, they pull the strings and we dance.
The business of the journalists is to destroy the truth, to lie outright, to pervert, to vilify, to fawn at the feet of mammon, and to sell his country and his race for his daily bread.
Our talents, our possibilities and our lives are all the property of other men. We are intellectual prostitutes." -- John Swinton, New York Times - New York Press Club, believed to be in 1880 at a banquet honoring him at his retirement. ("Labor's Untold Story", by Richard O. Boyer and Herbert M. Morais, published by United Electrical, Radio & Machine Workers of America, NY, 1955/1979.)
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"We are grateful to The Washington Post, The New York Times, Time Magazine and other great publications whose directors have attended our meetings and respected their promises of discretion for almost forty years. It would have been impossible for us to develop our plan for the world if we had been subject to the bright lights of publicity during those years.
But, the work is now much more sophisticated and prepared to march towards a world government. The supranational sovereignty of an intellectual elite and world bankers is surely preferable to the national auto determination practiced in past centuries." —David Rockefeller, founder of the Trilateral Commission, in an address to a meeting of The Trilateral Commission, in June, 1991.
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"The news and truth are not the same thing." -- Walter Lippmann, American journalist, 1889-1974
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"News is what someone wants to suppress. Everything else is advertising." -- Rubin Frank, former president NBC News
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"We tell the people what they need to know, not what they want to know." -- Frank Sesno, CNN News
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"Our job is to give people not what they want, but what we decide they ought to have." -- Richard Salant, Former President of CBS News
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Journalist Jack Anderson points out the CIA's "triple assault on the public's right to know" on September 22, 1981, which included,
1) trying to shut off channels of information to the electorate,
2) seeking criminal penalties against reporters whose stories might identify CIA operatives, and
3) [Anderson called this one the most troubling] spreading "disinformation" to news agencies.
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Famed news anchor Dan Rather told the BBC that American reporters were practicing "a form of self-censorship":
There was a time in South Africa that people would put flaming tires around peoples' necks if they dissented. And in some ways the fear is that you will be necklaced here, you will have a flaming tire of lack of patriotism put around your neck.
Now it is that fear that keeps journalists from asking the toughest of the tough questions... And again, I am humbled to say, I do not except myself from this criticism.
What we are talking about here - whether one wants to recognize it or not or call it by its proper name or not - is a form of self-censorship.
survivalblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/John_Swinton-e1600013153534.jpg
”There is no such thing, at this date in the world's history, in America, as an independent press. You know it and I know it.
There is not one of you who dares to write your honest opinions, and if you did, you know beforehand that it would never appear in print. I am paid weekly for keeping my honest opinion out of the paper I am connected with. Others of you are paid similar salaries for similar things, and any of you who would be so foolish as to write honest opinions would be out on the street looking for another job.
If I allowed my honest opinion to appear in one issue of my paper, before twenty-four hours my occupation would be gone. You know it and I know it. And what folly is this - toasting an independent press? We are the tools and vassals of rich men behind the scenes. We are the jumping jacks, they pull the strings and we dance.
The business of the journalists is to destroy the truth, to lie outright, to pervert, to vilify, to fawn at the feet of mammon, and to sell his country and his race for his daily bread.
Our talents, our possibilities and our lives are all the property of other men. We are intellectual prostitutes." -- John Swinton, New York Times - New York Press Club, believed to be in 1880 at a banquet honoring him at his retirement. ("Labor's Untold Story", by Richard O. Boyer and Herbert M. Morais, published by United Electrical, Radio & Machine Workers of America, NY, 1955/1979.)
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www.counton2.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/7/2017/03/ap_556257924678_35427603_ver1.0.jpg
"We are grateful to The Washington Post, The New York Times, Time Magazine and other great publications whose directors have attended our meetings and respected their promises of discretion for almost forty years. It would have been impossible for us to develop our plan for the world if we had been subject to the bright lights of publicity during those years.
But, the work is now much more sophisticated and prepared to march towards a world government. The supranational sovereignty of an intellectual elite and world bankers is surely preferable to the national auto determination practiced in past centuries." —David Rockefeller, founder of the Trilateral Commission, in an address to a meeting of The Trilateral Commission, in June, 1991.
--------------------------
www.thefamouspeople.com/profiles/images/walter-lippmann-3.png
"The news and truth are not the same thing." -- Walter Lippmann, American journalist, 1889-1974
--------------------------
"News is what someone wants to suppress. Everything else is advertising." -- Rubin Frank, former president NBC News
--------------------------
i.ytimg.com/vi/YlbQyV90Qco/maxresdefault.jpg
"We tell the people what they need to know, not what they want to know." -- Frank Sesno, CNN News
--------------------------
consortiumnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/richard-salant-everett.jpg
"Our job is to give people not what they want, but what we decide they ought to have." -- Richard Salant, Former President of CBS News
--------------------------
cbsnews1.cbsistatic.com/hub/i/r/2005/12/17/d54d8d8a-a642-11e2-a3f0-029118418759/thumbnail/620x350/2d2fd44db1dbc361373d5ca2c707a94a/image1134704x.jpg
Journalist Jack Anderson points out the CIA's "triple assault on the public's right to know" on September 22, 1981, which included,
1) trying to shut off channels of information to the electorate,
2) seeking criminal penalties against reporters whose stories might identify CIA operatives, and
3) [Anderson called this one the most troubling] spreading "disinformation" to news agencies.
www.bibliotecapleyades.net/imagenes_sociopol2/cia28_04_small.jpg
---------------------------
cdn.britannica.com/81/68581-050-E47C56AE/Dan-Rather-Somalia.jpg
Famed news anchor Dan Rather told the BBC that American reporters were practicing "a form of self-censorship":
There was a time in South Africa that people would put flaming tires around peoples' necks if they dissented. And in some ways the fear is that you will be necklaced here, you will have a flaming tire of lack of patriotism put around your neck.
Now it is that fear that keeps journalists from asking the toughest of the tough questions... And again, I am humbled to say, I do not except myself from this criticism.
What we are talking about here - whether one wants to recognize it or not or call it by its proper name or not - is a form of self-censorship.