TRUTH-TELLERS

"Many people, especially ignorant people, want to punish you for speaking the truth, for being correct.
Never apologize for being correct, or for being years ahead of your time.
If you're right and you know it, speak your mind.
Even if you are a minority of one, the truth is still the truth."

Mahatma Gandhi

TRUTH-TELLERS 11

INDEPENDENT VOICES COMMITTED TO THE TRUTH

Abby Martin / George Orwell

"The mainstream media is a conglomerate of collective corporate thought, designed to make you ignorant and unaware of the realities of the world, of the important issues, and to hide in the shadows the sacredly guarded truths of power. Our mainstream media - the large newspapers, radio and TV news stations - are dominated by billion dollar corporations, whose boards of directors reflect the 'who's who' of the corporate, political, and financial elite, with former government officials, industrialists, and bankers controlling the dispersal of information and the perspectives we are given."

Andrew Gavin Marshall, 2012

Carroll Quigley / Charles Hugh Smith / Thierry Meyssan

"Most media are part of huge conglomerates, and the policy that comes down is that you don't rock any boats. You can't make the government upset because the value of the company is the broadcast licenses, and the government will not renew them, and we can't make our corporate owners mad because they will fire us, and we can't make the advertisers mad or they will pull their advertising. So the media can't say anything that will upset the power structure. And that's what had happened to the press."

Paul Craig Roberts, 2012

Ramin Mazaheri / Alex Anfruns / Justin Raimondo / William O. Douglas

"Media disinformation has become institutionalized. The lies and fabrications have become increasingly blatant when compared to the 1970s. The US media has become the mouthpiece of US foreign policy. Disinformation is routinely "planted" by CIA operatives in the newsroom of major dailies, magazines and TV channels."

Michel Chossudovsky, 2010

Barrett Brown / Angus Mackenzie / Rob Kall / Dennis Bernstein

"The job of a journalist should not be to balance the news; it is to discern the truth, to investigate the truth, and to convey the truth to the American people."

Robert Kennedy, Jr, 2009

Henry Giroux / Randall Robinson / Gareth Porter

"The House of Rothschild bought Reuters news service in the 1800's. Within the last 20 years, Reuters bought the Associated Press. Now the Elite own the two largest wire services in the world, where most newspapers get their news. The Rothschilds have control of all three U.S. Networks, plus other aspects of the recording and mass media industry."

Eustice Mullins, 1991

Roger D Harris / Ron Forthofer / Melvin Goodman / Peter Lavelle

"One of the most dangerous influences of the media on our decisions, and one of the most tragic, is their tendency to desensitize the public to the horrific nature of war and violence. In the hands of the mainstream media, war has become a "political necessity" devoid of the human tragedies that in more sensible times make war a last, desperate resort."

Elliot D. Cohen and Bruce W. Fraser

"The American Associated Press (AP) with over 4000 employees worldwide. The AP belongs to US media companies and has its main editorial office in New York. AP news is used by around 12,000 international media outlets, reaching more than half of the world's population every day.
The quasi-governmental French Agence France-Presse (AFP) based in Paris and with around 4000 employees. The AFP sends over 3000 stories and photos every day to media all over the world.
The British agency Reuters in London, which is privately owned and employs just over 3000 people. Reuters was acquired in 2008 by Canadian media entrepreneur Thomson - one of the 25 richest people in the world - and merged into Thomson Reuters, headquartered in New York."

Swiss Propaganda Research

"The critical sense gets more lulled the more respected the news agency or newspaper is. Someone who wants to introduce a questionable story into the world press only needs to try to put his story in a reasonably reputable agency, to be sure that it then appears a little later in the others. Sometimes it happens that a hoax passes from agency to agency and becomes ever more credible."

Steffens 1969

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