Whores Everywhere, Swinton Was Right

Posted on Saturday, May 26 at 12:33 by Diogenes
"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 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 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." (Source: Labor's Untold Story, by Richard O. Boyer and Herbert M. Morais, published by United Electrical, Radio & Machine Workers of America, NY, 1955/1979.) http://www.rense.com/general76/hourn.htm [Proofreader's note: this article was edited for spelling and typos on May 28, 2007]

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  1. Sun May 27, 2007 2:05 am
    The more times change, the more they stay the same.

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    If there was ever a time for Canadians to become pushy - now is the time - for time is running out on this nation called Canada.

  2. Sun May 27, 2007 4:09 am
    And yet with all these warnings, the internet any what ever else the "we" continue to form our opin ions from the press
    Will there be a tipping point?

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    "It is easy to dodge our responsibilities, but we cannot dodge the consequences of dodging our responsibilities."
    —Sir Josiah Stamp



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