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Chapter
Five
Pat
Swindall, Today
"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 who would be so
foolish as to write honest opinions would be out on the streets looking for
another job. If I allowed one of my honest opinions to appear in one issue of
my paper, before twenty-four hours my occupation would be gone. 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. You know it and I know it and for 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. Our
talents, our possibilities and our lives are all the property of other men. We
are intellectual prostitutes."
John
Swinton
Chief of
Staff for the New York Times
1953
Toast before the New
York Press Club
Called
by his peers "The Dean of his Profession"
The
Providence Broadcasting Network
Webs
Of Deception
Summary
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