Time: Wed Dec 17 09:07:05 1997 Date: Wed, 17 Dec 1997 11:06:03 -0500 Originator: heritage-l@gate.net From: Paul Andrew Mitchell [address in tool bar] To: pmitch@primenet.com Subject: SLS: John Swinton: the press are intellectual prostitutes [This text is formatted in Courier 11, non-proportional spacing.] "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 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." ----------------------------------------------------------------- John Swinton (considered "The Dean of His Profession" by his peers), Chief of Staff, New York Times when asked to give a toast at the New York Press Club in 1953. ----------------------------------------------------------------- # # # =========================================================================== Paul Andrew Mitchell, Sui Juris : Counselor at Law, federal witness 01 B.A.: Political Science, UCLA; M.S.: Public Administration, U.C.Irvine 02 tel: (520) 320-1514: machine; fax: (520) 320-1256: 24-hour/day-night 03 email: [address in tool bar] : using Eudora Pro 3.0.3 on 586 CPU 04 website: http://supremelaw.com : visit the Supreme Law Library now 05 ship to: c/o 2509 N. Campbell, #1776 : this is free speech, at its best 06 Tucson, Arizona state : state zone, not the federal zone 07 Postal Zone 85719/tdc : USPS delays first class w/o this 08 _____________________________________: Law is authority in written words 09 As agents of the Most High, we came here to establish justice. We shall 10 not leave, until our mission is accomplished and justice reigns eternal. 11 ======================================================================== 12 [This text formatted on-screen in Courier 11, non-proportional spacing.] 13
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