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Date: Thu, 15 May 1997 22:33:05 -0700
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From: Paul Andrew Mitchell [address in tool bar]
Subject: SLS: John Swinton statement re: press (fwd)

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>
>John Swinton, the former chief of staff of the New York Times called by
>his peers "the Dean of his profession", was asked in 1953 to give a toast
>before the New York Press Club. He responded with the following
>statement:
>
>    "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 opinions 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 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."
>
>  "Woe unto ye, scribes and pharisees, hypocrites..."   Matthew 23
>
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