"Our job is not to give people what they want, but what we decide they ought to have."-Richard Salant, former president of CBS News
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"We are going to impose our agenda on the coverage, by dealing with issues and subjects that we choose to deal with."- Richard Cohen, Senior Producer, CBS Political News
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"News is what someone wants to suppress. Everything else is advertising." -- former NBC news president Rubin Frank
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"Are you watching this? Bush makes me sick. If he uses the 'mixed messages' line one more time, I'm going to puke." -John Green, ABC executive producer of the weekend edition of 'Good Morning America'
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"We in the press like to say we're honest brokers of information, and it's not true. The press does have an agenda."-Bernard Goldberg
"The American people will never knowingly adopt Socialism. But under the name of "liberalism" they will adopt every fragment of the socialist program, until one day America will be a Socialist nation, without knowing what happened." -Norman Thomas, U.S. Socialist Presidential candidate
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"We are gratful to the Washington Post, The New York Times, Time magazine, and other great publications whose directores have attended our meetings and respected their promises of descretion for almost forty years.
It would have been impossible for us to develop our plan for the world if we had been subject to the bright lights of publicity during those years. But, the world is now more sophisticated and prepared to march toward a world government." --David Rockerfeller, founder of the Trilateral Commission, in an address to a meeting of The Trilateral Commission, in June, 1991.
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"Every child in America entering school at the age of five is insane because he comes to school with certain allegiances toward our Founding Fathers, toward his parents, toward our elected officials, toward a beleif in a supernatural being, and toward the sovereignty of this nation as a seperate entity. It's up to you, teachers, to make all the sick children well by creating the international child of the future."- Chester M. Pierce. Professor, Department of Educational Psychiatry, Harvard University. During keynote address to 2000 teachers attending the Childhood International Seminar, Denver. Source: 'Brave New Schools', by Berit Kjos, Harvard House Publishers, 1995, pg.160
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"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.
The business of the journalist 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 the jumping jacks; they pull the strings and we dance. Our talents, our possibilities, and our lives are the property of other men. We are intellectual prostitutes."- John Swinton, highly respected former Chief of Staff for the New York Times, at the New York Press Club, 1953. when asked to give a simple toast before the New York Press Club, stunned a roomful of admiring peers into total silence with the preceding remarks (as reported in the January, 1993 issue of The National Educator, and also quoted in the book "Pure Sociology" by Professor Lester T. Ward)
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"Nothing can now be beleived which is seen in a newspaper. Truth itself becomes suspicious by being put into that polluted vehicle."- Thomas Jefferson
"The American people will never knowingly adopt Socialism. But under the name of "liberalism" they will adopt every fragment of the socialist program, until one day America will be a Socialist nation, without knowing what happened." -Norman Thomas, U.S. Socialist Presidential candidate
"Every child in America entering school at the age of five is insane because he comes to school with certain allegiances toward our Founding Fathers, toward his parents, toward our elected officials, toward a beleif in a supernatural being, and toward the sovereignty of this nation as a seperate entity. It's up to you, teachers, to make all the sick children well by creating the international child of the future."- Chester M. Pierce. Professor, Department of Educational Psychiatry, Harvard University. During keynote address to 2000 teachers attending the Childhood International Seminar, Denver. Source: 'Brave New Schools', by Berit Kjos, Harvard House Publishers, 1995, pg.160
I'll be keeping this one in my records - thank you!