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“The Central Intelligence Agency owns everyone of any significance in the major media.” — William Colby former Director of the CIA
“When I was Times bureau chief in Washington, I was a member of the League of Gentlemen ; otherwise I never would have been bureau chief. Time after time, good reporters...complained about not being able to get stories in the paper. And time after time I said to them, ‘You’re just not going to get that in the New York Times... it’s too reliant on your judgement rather than on official judgement, it’s too complex, it contradicts the official record more flagrantly than the conventions of daily journalism allow.’” — Tom Wicker New York Times columnist Guardian (London), February 13, 1985
“Think of the press as a great keyboard on which the government can play.” — Joseph Goebbels Nazi Propaganda Minister
“There is no such thing, at this date of the world’s history, 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 journalist is to destroy the truth, to lie outright, to pervert, to vilify, to fawn at the feet of mammon, and to sell the country 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 the 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.” — John Swinton New York Times editor in a speech before the New York Press Club 1953
“I have the greatest admiration for your propaganda. Propaganda in the West is carried out by experts who have had the best training in the world — in the field of advertising — and have mastered the techniques with exceptional proficiency... Yours are subtle and persuasive; ours are crude and obvious... I think that the fundamental difference between our worlds, with respect to propaganda, is quite simple. You tend to believe yours... and we tend to disbelieve ours.” — Soviet correspondent based five years in the U.S. quoted on www.thirdworldtraveler.com
“You furnish the pictures and I will furnish the war.” — William Randolph Hearst
Hearst was the owner of a chain of grossly dishonest, jingoistic newspapers. In 1898 he sent the famous artist Frederic Remington to Cuba to provide American newspaper readers with sketches of the Cuban insurrection against Spanish rule. When Remington arrived he found no insurrection happening. He wired Hearst, saying: “Everything quiet. No trouble here. There will be no war.” Hearst wired back the notorious reply above.
The propoganda machine that is todays media is more blatant than the past, however it is not new, by any means.
Finally a quote about U.S. Nuclear Policy:
“The fact that some elements may appear to be potentially ‘out of control’ can be beneficial to creating and reinforcing fears and doubts within the minds of an adversary’s decision makers...
“That the U.S. may become irrational and vindictive if its vital interests are attacked should be a part of the national persona we project to all adversaries... It hurts to portray ourselves as too fully rational and cool-headed...” — U.S. Strategic Command Essentials of Post-Cold War Deterrence 1995
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