“It is possible to fool all of the people all the time; when government and press cooperate.” -- GEORGE SELDES (legendary investigative reporter, 1938)
“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… 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 (former Chief of Staff New York Times in his toast to the New York Press Club. Quote1880)
“Those who manipulate the unseen mechanism of society constitute an Invisible Government which is the true ruling power of our country. We are governed; our minds molded, our tastes formed, our ideas suggested largely by men we have never heard of.” -- EDWARD L. BERNAYS (Sigmund Freud’s nephew and the father of psyops, mass spin control and modern propaganda. Bernay’s techniques sold WWI to Americans thru the “Committee on Public Information”. Josef Goebbels as Hitler's Minister of Propaganda was an avid fan of Bernay's work for the Third Reich. Bernays partnered with William Paley to run CBS. Edward Bernay’s work was also the foundation for CIA mass media manipulation via “Operation Mockingbird”. Quote: Bernay’s book “Propaganda” published 1928)
“Our job is to give people not what they want, but what we decide they ought to have.” -- RICHARD SALENT (President CBS “News” division 1961-64 & 1966-79 )
"News is what someone wants to suppress. Everything else is advertising". -- REUVEN FRANK (President NBC “News” from 1968-1972 & 1982-1984)
“You could get a journalist cheaper than a good call girl, for a couple hundred dollars a month.” -- PHILIP GRAHAM (editor of the Washington Post quoting his CIA operative source as he discussed the availability and prices of journalists willing to peddle CIA propaganda and cover stories. Quote 1991)
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