The National Union of Journalists (NUJ), hereafter to be known as the National Union of Propagandists (NUP) have instructed their members to attack the BNP in the lead up to the forthcoming election. Full details can be read at the London Patriot. Anyone who still believes that we have a free or honest press in this country requires an urgent psychiatric evaluation.
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Asked to give a toast before the prestigious New York Press Club in 1953, John Swinton, the former Chief of Staff at the New York Times, made this candid confession( it's worth noting that Swinton was called "The Dean of his Profession" by other newsmen, who admired him greatly):
"There is no such thing, at this date of world's history, as an independant 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 journalists 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 toating an independant 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. Or talents, our possibilities and our lives are all the property of other men. We are intellectual prostitutes".
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