"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."
The Myth of An American Free Press
by John Swinton
Chief of Staff, New York Times
(Considered "the Dean of his Profession" by his peers)
When asked to give a toast at the New York Press Club in 1953.
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