12/26/2018 0 Comments Quote #29That doesn't mean that we journalists have to risk our lives to tell the truth, but we do have to be brave enough to defy those who seek our collusion in selling their latest bloody adventure in someone else's country. That means always challenging the official story, however patriotic that story may appear, however seductive and insidious it is. For propaganda relies on us in the media to aim its deceptions, not at a far away enemy, but at you at home. It's very simple, in this age of endless imperial war the lives of countless men, women and children depend on the truth or their blood is on us. "Never believe anything until it's officially denied." said the great reporter, Claud Cockburn. In other words, those whose job it is to keep the record straight ought to be the voice of people, not power. - John Pilger, journalist; documentary filmmaker; war correspondent; from his film "The War You Don't See" (2010)
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12/26/2018 0 Comments Quote #28
- from You Can't Print That! The Truth behind the News, 1918-1928 by George Seldes
4/23/2018 0 Comments Quote #20The People's Paper. —Let it be understood that your sheet is distinctively a people's paper, and is not the organ of any party, class, or corporation. Announce that you will publish letters from anybody, regardless of grammar, sentiment, or position, with the only limitation of decency and personality. Advocate persistently cheap and honest public service. Let one of your mottoes be: "A penny a letter and a penny a mile," that is, the conviction that a letter ought to be sent anywhere in the United States for a penny, and that a man ought to be able to travel all over the country at the rate of a penny a mile. Have such mottoes as: "All the People Well Off," "Equal Rights for Everybody," "No Nepotism, no Partiality, no * Pulls.' " -from One Thousand Ways to Make Money by Page Fox (copyright 1900)
4/11/2018 0 Comments Quote #18There are Pentagon contracts with news organizations in terms of how to manipulate the news. There are Pentagon officials involved in press released that go to the media, in which Intelligence is used to manipulate public opinion, which is a violation of the charter of any Intelligence organization. Then you have retired Generals who serve as press spokesman for all the networks. It's never revealed which military industrial firms they work for. - Professor Melvin Goodman, former CIA analyst, from the documentary film, "The War You Don't See" (2010)
4/5/2018 0 Comments Quote #17If we journalists, including myself, had right from the get-go, from the opening pop, had started asking the kind of tough, digging, aggressive questions we should have been asking and doing our reporting, rather than just being kind of stenographers: go to a briefing, have an official say something, print it in the paper next day. If we had done our job, I do think a strong argument can be made that, perhaps, we would not have gone to war. - Dan Rather, CBS news anchor 1981-2005, from the documentary film, "The War You Don't See" (2010)
2/22/2018 0 Comments Quote #2Readers want facts, not reporters' fancies nor embellishments. It is well known that in many papers reporters are allowed to invent when they have no facts in the case, and as they are paid by the piece it is for their interest to make as much of an item as they can. Hence, our news is adulterated, distorted, and often falsified. We know some reporters who have invented columns of so-called "Facts;" others who have made sensational, highly-colored stories out of the most insignificant occurrences ; and still others who have invented fake reports of sermons, lectures, and other public utterances, when they had not time to obtain the originals. Have it clearly understood in large headlines as a part of the policy of the paper that no reporter will be allowed to invent or exaggerate, that he will be instantly discharged if it can be shown that he has in any way distorted the cold facts. In this way tens of thousands who are now disgusted with what is dished up for them as news but know not where to turn for better service, will be drawn to your paper, and you will establish the reputation for absolute truthfulness of statement and bald exactness of form. - from One Hundred Ways to Make Money by Page Fox (1900)
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