If You Think that We’re Tough on the msm, Just See What These Past Giants Had to Say!

By Pax Romana
Sunday, October 3, 2021 at 6:18:00 A.M. EDT

“The news and truth are not the same thing.”
—Walter Lippmann, American journalist, 1889-1974

“Our job is to give people not what they want, but what we decide they ought to have.”
—Richard Salant, former president of cbs news

“I feel sorry for the man who, after reading the daily newspaper, goes to bed believing he knows something of what’s going on in the world.”
— Henry Louis Mencken (1880-1956)

“We are going to impose our agenda on the coverage by dealing with issues and subjects that we choose to deal with.”
— Richard M. Cohen, former Senior Producer of cbs news

“Our Job is to Control Exactly What People Think”: “Well, I think that the dangerous, you know, edges here are that he [Trump] is trying to undermine the media and trying to make up his own facts. And it could be that while unemployment and the economy worsens [just the opposite happened-PR], he could have undermined the messaging so much that he can actually control exactly what people think. And that, that is our job.”
—msnbc’s Mika Brzezinski

“THERE is no such thing in America as an independent press, unless it is in the country towns.
“You know it and I know it. There is not one of you who dares to write his honest opinions, and if you did you know beforehand that it would never appear in print.
   “I am paid $150.00 a week 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 his honest opinions would be out on the streets looking for another job.
“The business of the New York journalist is to destroy the truth, to lie outright, to pervert, to vilify, to fawn at the feet of Mammon, and to sell his race and his country for his daily bread.
“You know this and I know it, and what folly is this to be 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.”
–John Swinton was a noted journalist, economist, and orator, the chief editorial writer at the new york times, and an editorial writer for the new york sun

“Nothing can now be believed which is seen in a newspaper. Truth itself becomes suspicious by being put into that polluted vehicle.”
—Thomas Jefferson