David Rockefeller, the founder of CFR and Trilateral Commission, spoke in June 1991 in Baden Baden, Germany: we are grateful the Washington Post, the New York Times, Time Magazine and other great publications whose directors have attended our meetings and respected their promises of discretion 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 towards a world government. The supernational sovereignty of an intellectual elite and world bankers is surely preferable to the national autodetermination practiced in past centuries.
John Swinton, the former chief of staff on New York Times, one of Americas best beloved newspaperman, said before the New York Press Club in 1953: There is no such thing, at this date of the worlds history, in America, as an independent press. You know it and I know it. There is not one of you who dare 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 opinion 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. The business of the journalists is to destroy the truth; to lie outright; to pervert; to vilify; to fawn at the feet of mammon, and sell his country and his race for 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 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.
Richard M. Cohan, senior producer of CBS political news: we are going to impose our agenda on the coverage by dealing with issues and subjects that we choose to deal with.
Richard Salant, former President of CBS News: our job is to give people not what they want, but what we decide they ought to have.
Herman Dismore, foreign editor of the New York Times from 1950 to 1960: The NY Times is deliberately pitched to the liberal(socialist) point of view.
Walter Cronkite: News reporters are certainly liberal and left of center.
Barbara Walters: The news media in general are liberals.
And just as his Democrat and Republican counterparts, the 'independent' spokesman for truth Ron Paul is a papal puppet.
