"Our liberty depends on freedom of the press, and that cannot be limited without being lost."
--Thomas Jefferson
"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
"Truth and news are not the same thing."
--Katharine Graham, The Washington Post
"We are going to impose OUR AGENDA on the coverage by dealing with
issues and subjects that WE choose to deal with."
--Richard M. Cohan, Senior Producer of CBS political news
"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 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 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 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, the former Chief of Staff for the New York Times, New York Press Club, 1953
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