Michael Walsh
'When it came to discussing the war in Iraq staff found it so difficult to find any member of the public prepared to speak in favour that they ended up planting people in the (Question Time) audience.'
– Autobiography: BBC Director-General, Greg Dyke. Mail on Sunday. October 24 2004.
'You cannot hope to bribe or twist, thank God a British journalist - But seeing what the man will do, unbribed, there's no occasion to.'
- Humbert Wolfe
'A New York firm of publishers recently brought out a book entitled, The Washington Correspondent, in which some extremely interesting statements appeared. The author records the answers to a questionnaire placed before several journalists. The question of how far the freedom of a journalist extended was often laconically answered to the effect that everyone knew they had to write what their editors wanted, or that they would be thrown out of the editorial departments if they did not write what was wanted. The writer of the book, Leo C. Roston, remarks that in a society where freedom is a nice slogan, limited by economic reality, a clear conscience is a luxury restricted to those who have enough money to refuse a compromise at the expense of their personal ideals.'
THEY WANT IT EVERY WAY
'Each year advertisers spend £1,000,000,000 in the belief that television can influence human behaviour. The television industry enthusiastically agrees with them, but nonetheless contends that its programmes of violence do not have any such influence.'
- U.S.A. Presidential Commission
The net poses a fundamental threat not only to the authority of the government, but to all authority, because it permits people to organize, think, and influence one another without any institutional supervision whatsoever.'
- John Seabrook. American journalist at The New Yorker since 1993.
'This is, in theory still a free country, but our politically correct, censorious times are such that many of us tremble to give vent to perfectly acceptable views for fear of condemnation. Freedom of speech is thereby imperilled, big questions go undebated, and great lies become accepted, unequivocally as great truths.'
- Simon Heffer, Daily Mail, June 7 2000.
If you don't read the newspaper you are uninformed, if you do read the newspaper you are misinformed.
-- Mark Twain
MARK TWAIN 'Do not fear the enemy, for your enemy can only take your life. It is far better that you fear the media, for they will steal your Honor. That awful power, the public opinion of a nation, is created in America by a horde of ignorant, self-complacent simpletons who failed at ditching and shoemaking and fetched up in journalism on their way to the poorhouse.'
- Mark Twain.
'Newspapers do not give facts, they fool the people regularly.'
- New York Times, May 16 1921
'The newspapers are the dirtiest and filthiest things that ever happened.'
- Bjurstedt Mallory, Chicago Tribune, February 7 1923.
'The bureaucratic objective is this: If you cannot suppress the news or control it, then for heaven's sake convert it into a meaningless mass of gobbledegook.'
- Roger Tarterian, Editor, United Press International, March 8 1967.
GEORGE ORWELL ON THE PRESS
'At any given moment there is an orthodoxy, a body of ideas which it is assumed all right-thinking people will accept without question. It is not exactly forbidden to say this or that or the other, but it is 'not done.'. . . Anyone who challenges the prevailing orthodoxy finds himself silenced with surprising effectiveness. A genuinely unfashionable opinion is almost never given a fair hearing, either in the popular press or in highbrow periodicals.'
– George Orwell.
'Newspapers have to sell in order to live, so does commercial T.V. That leaves the British Broadcasting Corporation as the only truly public service medium in this country disseminating information, entertainment, and, in the case of race relations propaganda. We are unashamed to admit it is what we are doing.'
- Gerry Hines, BBC, Programme Organiser, in Race Today / 'We are all Marxists now.'
- Sir. Charles Curran, BBC, 10 October 1970.
BRITAIN'S MOSCOW TYPE MEDIA
'I have heard MPs and senior political aficionados complain that if they were to say on BBC what they really think, they would never be invited again, and not to be invited again could make a quick end to an aspiring politician's prospects.'
- Roy Bramwell, Inter-City Research Centre. Blatant Bias Corporation
THE TELEVISION TALIBAN
'Television lies. All television lies. It lies persistently, instinctively and by habit. Everyone involved lies. A culture of mendacity surrounds the medium and those who work there live it, breathe it and prosper by it. I know of no area of public life - no, not even politics - more saturated by a professional cynicism. If you want a word that takes you to the core of it, I would offer 'rigged'. ......... is it dishonest for the presenter to imply that the pundit in the chair is free to offer any opinion, when the truth is that 50 pundits were telephoned but only the fellow prepared to offer the requisite opinion was invited?'
- Matthew Pariss. British Press Awards Columnist of the Year. Daily Mail, April 21 1996.
'If you have nothing to fill it (television) with, then turn to blacks and the coloreds... you can always find a sufficient number of blacks who are only too glad to get on television.'
- Reverend Wilfred Wood, Chairman, BBC Religious Advisory Committee
'The papers conducted by Lord Rothermere and Lord Beaverbrook are not newspapers in the ordinary acceptance of the term. They are engines of propaganda, for the constantly changing policies, desires, personal wishes, personal likes and dislikes of two men... it is power without responsibility'
- Stanley Baldwin, British Prime Minister 1924-1929 and 1935-1937.
'I am not certain what we should fear more, a street full of soldiers who are out to plunder, or a room full of writers who are used to lie.'
- Samuel Johnson
THE REGIMENTATION OF THOUGHT
'The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic society. Those who manipulate this unseen mechanism of society constitute an invisible government which is the true ruling power of our country. . . The important thing is that [propaganda] is universal and continuous; and in its sum total it is regimenting the public mind every bit as much as an army regiments the bodies of its soldiers.'
- Edward Bernays 'Propaganda'.
'The most important service rendered by the press and the magazines is that of educating people to approach printed matter with distrust.'
- Samuel Butler
'In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act'
- George Orwell
'A journalist is a person who scribbles on the back of advertisements.'
- Anon
'Lies come first, and drag along the gullible. Truth limps in long afterward on the arm of time.'
- Balthazar Gracian.
AN AMERICAN GENERAL DESPAIRS 'If the media can create a defeat of our armies on the battlefield, they can also eventually defeat the viability of our system. In that regard, it may be later than we think.'
- Gen. William Westmoreland, Washington D.C. 22 April 1978.
'There is no such thing as an independent Press in America, unless it is in the country towns.. You know it, and I know it. There is not one of you who dares to express an honest opinion. If you express an honest opinion, you know beforehand it would never appear in print. I am paid $150 a week for keeping my honest opinion out of the paper I am connected with. Others of you are paid similar salaries for doing similar things. If I should permit honest opinions to be printed in one issue of my newspaper, like Othello, before twenty-four hours, my occupation would be gone. 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; to sell his race and his country for his daily bread. We are tools and vassals of rich men behind the scenes. We are intellectual prostitutes.'
- John Swinton, in the late 1880s
'Even when it cannot (the media) inculcate communist ideas, it can exclude effectively information and ideas that might undermine the impact of the Communist Party's efforts.'
- The New Frontier of War, U.S Department of Defence.
'Stirring up the animals (the newspaper readers) was one of the great ends of life.'
- Charles A. Dana (1819 – 1897) One of America's greatest journalists
'Political correctness is just another way of filtering the truth.'
- Sir Peter Hall, Theatre Director.
'Some interior voice urged me to buy the newspaper (Arbeiterszeitung - The Workman's Journal) paper in that tobacco shop, despite my feelings of revulsion, and to read it through. Doing so I perceived how the masses are duped by duplicitous reporting. No means were too base, provided they could be exploited in the campaign of slander. These journalists were real virtuosos in the art of twisting facts and presenting them in a deceptive form. The theoretical literature was intended for the simpletons of the soi-disant intellectuals belonging to the middle and, naturally, the upper classes. The newspaper propaganda was intended for the masses. This probing into books and newspapers and studying the teachings of Social-Democracy re-awakened my love for my own people. And thus what at first seemed an impassable chasm became the occasion of a closer affection. Having once understood the workings of the colossal system for poisoning the popular mind, only a fool could blame the victims of it. '
- Adolf Hitler. Mein Kampf.
THE FINAL WORD
Here's freedom to him who would speak
Here's freedom to him who would write,
For there's none ever feared that the truth should be heard,
Except he who the truth would indict.
- Robert Burns
RULE ONE :
NEVER BELIEVE THE MEDIA
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Here's freedom to him who would speak
Here's freedom to him who would write,
For there's none ever feared that the truth should be heard,
Except he who the truth would indict.
- Robert Burns
RULE ONE
NEVER BELIEVE THE MEDIA
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