The CFR Media System I
by: parclub_latot 01/04/03
02:15 pm Msg: 206452
of 206482
Many people wonder how capitalists like J.P. Morgan and John D. Rockefeller could be on such friendly terms with socialism, but one must remember that there is a difference between capitalism and monopoly capitalism. While Socialism imposes more government regulations or controls than capitalism, monopoly capitalists can believe that through financial contributions they can persuade politicians to impose government regulations or controls favorable to the monopoly capitalists against potential competitors.
In the February 9, 1917 Congressional Record, Rep. Oscar Callaway (Texas) inserted the following statement:
"In March, 1915, the J.P. Morgan interests, the steel, shipbuilding, and powder interests, and their subsidiary organizations got together 12 men high up in the newspaper world and employed them to select the most influential newspapers in the United States and sufficient number of them to control generally the policy of the daily press of the United States. These 12 men worked the problem out by selecting 179 newspapers, and then began, by an elimination process, to retain only those necessary for the purpose of controlling the general policy of the daily press throughout the country. They found it was only necessary to purchase the control of 25 of the greatest papers. The 25 papers were agreed upon; emissaries were sent to purchase the policy, national and international, of these papers; an agreement was reached; the policy of the papers was bought, to be paid for by the month; an editor was furnished for each paper to properly supervise and edit information regarding the questions of preparedness, militarism, financial policies, and other things of national and international nature considered vital to the interests of the purchasers."
Now relate this to all the news that is fed to us in newspapers everywhere. That is, of course, all the news that is "fit" to be published and distributed to the little munchkins.