Prostitute intellectual "There is, in this period of history of the world in America, an independent press. You know and I will too. There is not one of you who would dare to write about their real opinions, and if you did you would know in advance that would never be published. I get paid weekly so keep my honest opinion away from the newspaper to which I belong. Others of you are paid similarly for similar things, and who among you is so foolish as to write honest opinions would find themselves on the street to look for another job. If I allowed my true opinions to appear in an edition of the newspaper, before twenty-four hours my occupation would end.
The work of the journalist is to destroy the truth, to lie openly, to distort, defame, worship wealth. and sell their country and its people for their daily bread. You know and I also, and what folly is this toasting an independent press? We are the puppets, their tangled and we dance. Our talents, our possibilities and our lives are all owned by other men.
We are intellectual prostitutes. "
John Swinton, editor of the New York Times (1880)
From the book"
unauthorized disclosure - The path of the occult power "Marco Pizzutti