The business of a New York journalist is to distort the truth, to lie outright, to pervert, to villify, to fawn at the feet of Mammon, and to sell his country and his race for his daily bread, or for what is about the same — his salary. You know this, and I know it; and what foolery to be toasting an “Independent Press”! We are the tools and vassals of rich men behind the scenes. We are jumping-jacks. They pull the string and we dance. Our time, our talents, our lives, our possibilities, are all the property of other men. We are intellectual prostitutes.
I can personally verify that nothing has changed in the journalism business in over 100 years. If you want honest journalism you will need unpaid journalists. As soon as money changes hands there is compromise.
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2 responses to “Journalism Business”
un paid journalists are no better and probably worse. many journalists have died to bring truth to power. like everything else there is good and bad.
@captain
I agree that they are no better. But it would be hard to be worse.