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Freedom of Press ? A Frank Opinion of John Swinton

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The Independence of the Press

John Swinton (1829–1901) was a Scottish-American journalist, newspaper publisher, and orator. Although he arguably gained his greatest influence as the chief editorial writer of The New York Times during the decade of the 1860s, Swinton is best remembered as the namesake of John Swinton's Paper, one of the most prominent American labor newspapers of the 1880s. Swinton would also serve as chief editorialist of the New York Sun during two stints totaling more than a dozen years.

Following his stint as a freelancer, Swinton took a permanent position as an editorial writer for the New York Sun in 1875. Before he left the Sun in 1883 to launch a newspaper of his own, he delivered at a press dinner the speech he is most famous for today:

"There is no such a thing in America as an independent press, unless it is out in country towns. You are all slaves. You know it, and I know it. There is not one of you who dares to express an honest opinion. If you expressed it, you would know beforehand that it would never appear in print. I am paid $150 for keeping honest opinions out of the paper I am connected with. Others of you are paid similar salaries for doing similar things. If I should allow honest opinions to be printed in one issue of my paper, I would be like Othello before twenty-four hours: my occupation would be gone. The man who would be so foolish as to write honest opinions would be out on the street hunting for another job. The business of a New York journalist is to distort the truth, to lie outright, to pervert, to villify, to fawn at the feet of Mammon, and to sell his country and his race for his daily bread, or for what is about the same — his salary. You know this, and I know it; and what foolery to be toasting an "Independent Press"! We are the tools and vassals of rich men behind the scenes. We are jumping-jacks. They pull the string and we dance. Our time, our talents, our lives, our possibilities, are all the property of other men. We are intellectual prostitutes."

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Swinton_(journalist)

www.agorapoliton.gr Title “Red lines vs frightful feeling”

Monday, 22 January 2018 13:53

“Nations which, potentially, has to count, every day, how many of their political dissidents survived from any foreign services' attempts to “silence” them (e.g. Paris 2012); which has to count, every day, how many foreign special forces' members kept terrorizing their, peaceful and innocent population, by demonstrating fake snipers riffles (e.g. Alexandroupolis 2014); which has to count, every day, how many of their, inhabiting disputed parts of their Nation's territories, members, have “died”, or, have become “sick”, or, have become disassociated; which has to count, every day, how many of their, specialized, or, local, commercial markets have become infiltrated/dominated by supposed “businessmen” equipped with a, literary, endless, foreign financial resources; which has to count, every day, how many new symbols of foreign domination have been, arbitrarily, erected upon its sacred soil, those Nations remain entitled to resort to the feeling of fear.”

Source: http://198.136.54.115/~agorapol/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1893:red-lines-vs-frightful-feeling&catid=27:apopseis&Itemid=62

Poisoning of Sergei and Yulia Skripal

On 4 March 2018, Sergei Skripal, a former Russian military officer and double agent for the UK's intelligence services, and his daughter Yulia Skripal were poisoned in Salisbury, England, with a Novichok nerve agent, according to official UK sources and the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poisoning_of_Sergei_and_Yulia_Skripal

In most cases, the settler-colonised Nations’ mass media they are forbiden to defend the rule of law against the application of genocidal-policies and they produce/propagate fake “news”. (e.g. Skripal fraude) while they keep “radio-silence” for Gladio terrorism’s victims (e.g. Olga Bompolas and Christos Boumpoulis).

Christos Boumpoulis

economist