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-author: John Swinton
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-content: There is no such thing, at this date of the world's history, in America,
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- as an independent press. You know it and I know it. There is not one of you who
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- dares to write your honest opinions, and if you did, you know beforehand that it
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- would never appear in print. I am paid weekly for keeping my honest opinion out
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- of the paper I am connected with. Others of you are paid similar salaries for similar
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- things, and any of you who would be so foolish as to write honest opinions would
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- be out on the streets looking for another job. If I allowed my honest opinions to
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- appear in one issue of my paper, before twenty-four hours my occupation would be
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- gone. The business of the journalists is to destroy the truth, to lie outright,
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- to pervert, to vilify, to fawn at the feet of mammon, and to sell his country and
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- his race for his daily bread. You know it and I know it, and what folly is this
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- toasting an independent press? We are the tools and vassals of rich men behind the
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- scenes. We are the jumping jacks, they pull the strings and we dance. Our talents,
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- our possibilities and our lives are all the property of other men. We are intellectual
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- prostitutes.
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