The Media: Machina of the Gods
The following excerpt is drawn from the book Mass Control: Engineering Human Consciousness, written by Jim Keith. The following statements about the media were made more than 50 years ago. How much more or less do you feel they apply today? Defend your minds.
"Journalist John Swinton--one of the most respected of the breed at the time--described the situation succinctly when he gave a toast at the New York Press Club in 1953. Swinton said,
"There is no such thing at this date of 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 would be so foolish as to write honest opinions would be out on the streets looking for another job. If I allowed my honest opinions to appear in one issue of my paper, before twenty-four hours my occupation would be gone."
[Dan Rather comes to mind]
"The business of journalists is to destroy the truth, to lie outright, to pervert, to vilify, to fawn at the feet of mammon [wealth/greed], and to sell his country and his race for his daily bread/ You know it, and what folly is this toasting an independent press?
"We are tools of rich men behind the scenes. We are 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."
"Journalist John Swinton--one of the most respected of the breed at the time--described the situation succinctly when he gave a toast at the New York Press Club in 1953. Swinton said,
"There is no such thing at this date of 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 would be so foolish as to write honest opinions would be out on the streets looking for another job. If I allowed my honest opinions to appear in one issue of my paper, before twenty-four hours my occupation would be gone."
[Dan Rather comes to mind]
"The business of journalists is to destroy the truth, to lie outright, to pervert, to vilify, to fawn at the feet of mammon [wealth/greed], and to sell his country and his race for his daily bread/ You know it, and what folly is this toasting an independent press?
"We are tools of rich men behind the scenes. We are 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."
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