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 50

INDEPENDENT VOICES COMMITTED TO THE TRUTH

Laurent Guyenot / I. F. Stone

"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

Oliver Vargas / Rob Urie / Alexandra Minna Stern

"When government and special interests finance education and research, and the media is concentrated in a few large corporations dependent on government broadcast licenses, there is not much room left for truth."

Paul Craig Roberts, 2008

Scott Atlas, MD / Salman Rafi Sheikh / Garland Nixon / Stephen Sefton

"With very few exceptions, the front men and women of the mainstream media - the radio and TV talk show hosts and pundits - are company employees who are willing to toe the corporate line in order to keep their jobs. The net result of such media line toeing is the mass dissemination of government propaganda and deception."

Elliot D. Cohen and Bruce W. Fraser

Pam Martens / Tom Engelhardt / Jonothan Kozol

"Whether employing professional journalists trained at prestigious universities or polemicists whose ignorance, arrogance and malevolence serve partisan agendas, our dominant media are ultimately accountable only to corporate boards whose mission is not life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness for the whole body of our republic, but the aggrandizement of corporate executives and shareholders; organizations whose self-styled mandate is not holding public and private power accountable so that there is an equilibrium in society, but aggregating their interlocking interests; organizations whose reward comes from the manufacturing of news and information as profitable consumer commodities, rather than the means to empower morally responsible citizens."

 
Alicia Jrapko / George Seldes / William O. Douglas / Francis Richard Conolly

"The Pentagon employs more than 27,000 PR specialists who, with a budget of nearly $ 5 billion a year, are working the media and circulating targeted manipulations."

globalresearch.ca, 2016

Dan Wright / Sheldon Richman / Eduardo Galeano / Russ Martens

"The typical correspondent is in general not able to do independent research, but rather deals with and reinforces those topics that are already prescribed by the news agencies."

Swiss Propaganda Research, 2019

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