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To: Sicon
I love the metaphor here, which can be taken to compare the MSM stories with steaming piles of sh*t, which most of them are!

LOL! What you say is funny, but when I first read this months ago I was a little bummed that we were called "flies". But what you say about the MSM (Oldmedia) is so true.

About the MSM ............. from years ago:

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Upton Sinclair: As I have said, I know several of the men and women who help to edit [The Los Angeles Times]. These men and women will read this book, and I now request the general public to step outside for a few moments, while I address these editors privately. I speak, not in my own voice, but in that of an old-time journalist, venerated in his day, John Swinton, editor of the New York Tribune. Sinclair is answering, at a banquet of his fellow editors, the toast: "An Independent Press":

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 writes (sic) his honest opinions, and if you did you know beforehand that it would never appear in print.

I am paid one hundred and fifty dollars 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.

67 posted on 02/21/2005 8:11:09 AM PST by beyond the sea (Barbara Boxer is Barbra Streisand on peyote .....)
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To: beyond the sea
when I first read this months ago I was a little bummed that we were called "flies".

Yeah, that bothered me too, but it's worth it to be able to put MSM stories in their proper context!

69 posted on 02/21/2005 8:15:41 AM PST by Sicon
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