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“The business of the journalists is to destroy the truth… 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, speech given while working for the New York Sun, 1880
Journalism is the only profession explicitly protected by the U.S. Constitution, because journalists are supposed to be the check and balance on government. We’re supposed to be holding those in power accountable. We’re not supposed to be their megaphone. That’s what the corporate media have become.
- – Amy Goodman
The bigger the information media, the less courage and freedom they allow. Bigness means weakness.
- – Eric Sevareid
People shouldn’t expect the mass media to do investigative stories. That job belongs to the ‘fringe’ media.
– Ted Koppel
What the mass media offers is not popular art, but entertainment which is intended to be consumed like food, forgotten, and replaced by a new dish.
– W. H. Auden
