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Quotations on the Prostitution of the Mass Media

March 17, 2012

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"If you don't read the newspaper you are uninformed, if you do read the newspaper you are misinformed". -- Mark Twain

or Deformed!





Compiled by Michael Walsh
(henrymakow.com)


Michael is the author of Witness to History which can be downloaded at his website, which has many useful videos.





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.
 
 
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'.
 
'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.
 

AMERICA TOO

 '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, Editor of the New York Tribune, to the New York Press Association, on February 26 1936
 

The Internet 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.
 

''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
 
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
 
'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 tend to find that television does accumulate around it left-of-centre people.... and the whole direction of television is left-of-centre.' -  Anthony Smith, BBC Twenty For Hours, 1970/1971.
 
 
'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.
 
'Political correctness is just another way of filtering the truth.' -  Sir Peter Hall, Theatre Director.
 
 '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 imperiled, big questions go undebated, and great lies become accepted, unequivocally as great truths.' - Simon Heffer, Daily Mail, June 7 2000.

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Dan writes:

Added, from the script for the 1975 movie 'Network':

"So you listen to me. Listen to me.


Television is not the truth. Television's a goddamned amusement park.

Television is a circus, a carnival, a traveling troupe of acrobats,
storytellers, dancers, singers, jugglers, sideshow freaks, lion tamers and
football players.

We're in the boredom-killing business.


So if you want the truth, go to God. Go to your gurus. Go to yourselves.

Because that's the only place you're ever going to find any real truth.

But, man, you're never gonna get any truth from us. We'll tell you

anything you wanna hear. We lie like hell.  We'll tell you any shit you
want to hear.

We deal in illusions, man. None of it is true.


But you people sit there, day after day, night after night, all ages,

colours, creeds.

We're all you know. You're beginning to believe the illusions we're
spinning. You're beginning to think the tube is reality and your lives are
unreal. You do whatever the tube tells you. You dress like the tube, eat
like the tube, raise your children like the tube, think like the tube.

This is mass madness, you maniacs. In God's name, you people are the real
thing! We are the illusión!

So turn off your televisión sets. Turn them off now. Turn them off right

now! Turn them off and leave them off. Turn them off right in the middle
of the sentence I'm speaking now.

Turn them off."







Scruples - the game of moral dillemas

Comments for "Quotations on the Prostitution of the Mass Media "

Stan said (March 18, 2012):

The New World Order could never proceed without almost total control of the media. The psychological quandary we, the general public, find ourselves in, even those of us, strangely, who know the truth, is that we still can't seem to accept truth as being truth without getting it verified and confirmed by the mass media first. If it is not in the mass media, we have serious trouble openly talking about the real truth of this elite controlled world, which deep down, we know to be true.

We are creatures that need verification from a higher source because we instinctively know we are significantly imperfect and without God or His perfect Word in our lives, that vacuum is tragically filled by the Babylonian Mystery Religions vast media complex.

I can only imagine how perplexing it must be for key journalists to have to go against their conscience so often. It must be only after the desire for income security becomes such a priority that they eventually allow their consciences to be come so seared they can live with themselves. Unfortunately, in doing so, they become the agents of the Satanic elite

The truth will set you free! Get as much of it as we can before they close free speech on the internet down.


Henry Makow received his Ph.D. in English Literature from the University of Toronto in 1982. He welcomes your comments at