Time: Thu May 15 22:35:09 1997 by primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id SAA23595; Wed, 14 May 1997 18:59:44 -0700 (MST) by usr04.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id SAA18148; Wed, 14 May 1997 18:56:06 -0700 (MST) Date: Thu, 15 May 1997 22:33:05 -0700 To: (Recipient list suppressed) From: Paul Andrew Mitchell [address in tool bar] Subject: SLS: John Swinton statement re: press (fwd) <snip> > >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 > <snip> ======================================================================== Paul Andrew, Mitchell, B.A., M.S. : Counselor at Law, federal witness email: [address in tool bar] : Eudora Pro 3.0.1 on Intel 586 CPU web site: http://www.supremelaw.com : library & law school registration ship to: c/o 2509 N. Campbell, #1776 : this is free speech, at its best Tucson, Arizona state : state zone, not the federal zone Postal Zone 85719/tdc : USPS delays first class w/o this ========================================================================
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