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There
is no denying that the pen is often mightier than the sword, and
that before and alongside every shooting war there is a propaganda
war being waged. In the battle for the hearts and minds of people
the media play a pivotal role, and it is legitimate therefore to
where there loyalties lie, with their readers or with their
financers. Media publication today is big business and stretches
across national borders. There is no such thing as impartiality. As
aptly put by John Swinton during
his retirement speech from the New York Times in the 1930s, when
asked to respond to a toast to an independent press: ”What folly
is this toasting an independent press. Everyone present here tonight
knows there is no such thing as an independent press. You know it
and I know it. There is not one of you who would dare to write his
honest opinions, and if he did, you know before hand they would
never appear in print. I am paid 250 dollars a week to keep my
honest opinions out of the paper I am connected with. Others of you
are paid similar salaries for similar work. The business of the
journalist is to destroy the truth, to lie outright, to pervert, to
vilify, to fawn at the foot of Mammon, and sell himself, his
country, and his race for his daily bread:
We are the tools and vassals of rich men behind the scenes. We are
jumping jacks they pull the strings, and we dance. Our talents, our
possibilities and our lives are the property of these men. We are
intellectual prostitutes.”
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