John Swinton was a well known journalist and economist who was the cheif editorial writer for the New York Times in the 1860′s. He said the following over 100 years ago, so what then can be said about the media today, in our global villiage like world, where it’s become very apparent that the truth is hidden from us, stats are twisted and henious crimes go unreported, while often insiginificant issues are on the front pages.  We are hearing more and more about celebrities and sports, while civilian lives are taken daily, while the Zionist state of Israel goes on committing it’s atrocoties, while over 6,000 former service personnel of the U.S military commit suicide every year and soldiers sent to Iraq and Afghanistan who are becoming more and more disillusioned day by day as they fight an unjust war, realising they aren’t helping liberate people but rather taking and ruining lives.

“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.”

[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.]