jueves, 20 de diciembre de 2007
Intellectual Prostitutes.-
"There is no such thing, at this date of the world's history, as an independent press. You know it and I know it. [...]

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 journalist is to destroy the truth; to lie outright; to pervert; to vilify; to fawn at the feet of mammon, and to sell the country 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 the 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".

John Swinton, Chief of Staff at the New York Times (toast at the New York Press Club, 1953)

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