Saturday, May 10, 2014

MSM Quote of the Day

"If I allowed my honest opinions to appear in one issue of my paper, before twenty-four hours my occupation would be gone. The business of journalists is to destroy the truth; to pervert; to vilify; to fawn at the feet of mammon, and to sell this country and this race for their daily bread. We are the tools and vessels for rich men behind the scenes. We are the jumping jacks, they pull the strings and we dance. Our talents, our possibilities and our lives are all the property of other men. We are intellectual prostitutes."
John Swinton, former Chief of Staff of The New York Times

[Borrowed from http://www.prouty.org/comment1.html]

I bet things haven't changed much since Swinton's time.

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