-Caveat Lector-
(Source: Labor's Untold Story, by Richard O. Boyer and Herbert M. Morais,
published by United Electrical, Radio & Machine Workers of America, NY,
1955/1979.)
One night, probably in 1880, John Swinton, then the preeminent New York
journalist, was the guest of honour at a banquet given him by the leaders of
his craft. Someone who knew neither the press nor Swinton offered a toast to
the independent press. Swinton outraged his colleagues by replying:
"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."
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> Subject: NO INDEPENT PRESS IN AMERICA? John Swinton Quote
> Date: Friday, October 15, 1999 10:34 PM
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> WHY WE DON'T HAVE A FREE PRESS
> John Swinton (considered 'the dean of his profession' by his peers),
> Chief of Staff, New York Times when asked to give a toast at the New
> York Press Club in 1953.... THIS IS WHAT HE SAID:
>
> "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 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 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."
While the statement above is essentially true, it is a phony quote.
Swinton was never chief of staff at the times, and he was a reporter
at the turn of the century, or in the early part of this century.
THIS IS AN URBAN LEGEND QUOTE. If you want to be credible, don't use it.
Joshua2
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