This news comes to you courtesy of the redoubtable TORONTO STAR, newspaper of choice for all Northern lumberjacks who like their news hearty, meaty and raw!
We begin, innocently if ludicrously, with the following item [see if you can spot the FAMOUS NAME concealed within this column of news, kids!].....
By Leslie Papp
Queen's Park Bureau.
Ontario Hydro chairman Maurice Strong has opened talks on buying 12,500 hectares [30,875 acres] of a Costa Rican forest in a deal the [Opposition] Progressive Conservatives brand as "wacky" in the face of the utility's $34 billion debt.
"How is this going to help the ratepayers in Ontario?" Conservative energy critic Chris Stockwell asked in the Legislature yesterday.
"In my wildest dreams, I can't fathom how the hell this could be used", he later told reporters. Citing federal sources, Stockwell said the tract sought by Strong is worth between $10 million and $12 million. It borders on Corcovado National Park and, if Hydro buys the land, it would be added to the park for environmental preservation.
A Hydro spokesperson said the land might help combat greenhouse gases.
The talks come at a time when Hydro has cut about 10,000 jobs.
Later, asked by reporters, Stockwell said he saw no connection betweeen the proposed parkland purchase and Strong's private ownership of land in Costa Rica.
Hydro spokesperson Terry Young confirmed that Strong had discussed purchase of the tract by the utility in a recent meeting with Costa Rican officials in Ottawa.
"We've had some discussions which I would term exploratory about investment in this park", Young said. "It's an option. We've not talked money at all. We haven't done anything in terms of commitments".
The purchase is being considered on grounds that saving a large section of forest will help offset the emission of greenhouse gases by oil or coal-burning generating stations, he said.
Asked why the utility isn't investing in Ontario forests, instead of those in the Caribbean, Young said Hydro does much for this province too, including a rate freeze this year.
Stockwell said Strong should use his own money if he wants to invest in the global environment. "Ontarians can't afford to save the Earth through their hydro bills".
Strong was on a business trip to Japan and unavailable for comment.
Energy Minister Bud Wildman appeared taken aback by news of Hydro talks toward a Costa Rican land purchase. He stressed that no deal had been signed and vowed to discuss the matter with Strong.
Thomas Walkom
Queen's Park
There is surely a good reason why Ontario Hydro is contemplating the purchase of 12,500 hectares of jungle in Costa Rica.
Yesterday, government and Hydro officials were scrambling to find out what that reason is.
The Hydro jungle scheme first surfaced yesterday in the Legislature when Tory MPP Chris Stockwell read a little snippet from the publication COSTA RICA.
According to that newsletter, Costa Rica's government has received "an offer from the Canadian electric company Ontario Hydro to buy 12,500 hectares next to Corcovado National Park and add it to the area for environmental preservation."
Stockwell said the Tories had been told the land in question is worth between $10 million and $12 million.
Energy Minister Bud Wildman told Stockwell he bad no idea why Hydro would want to buy jungle in Costa Rica but that he'd try to find out.
Later, he told reporters that David Hopper, head of Hydro's international operations, knew nothing about the jungle deal.
However, Ontario Hydro spokesman Terry Young told The Star yesterday that there have been discussions between Hydro and Costa Rica but that no deal has yet been signed.
Why Costa Rica?
"It's an interest we have in testing opportunities to offset greenhouse gas emissions," Young said. "It's because of the trees. Trees sequester carbon dioxide."
What Young seemed to be saying was that the crown corporation wants to preserve the Central American jungle to offset the world production of carbon dioxide.
Ontario Hydro itself creates carbon dioxide through its coal-fired generating stations. Such emissions form a blanket around the Earth that traps heat, leading to higher temperatures.This is the so-called greenhouse effect.
Young said no decision has been made as to whether Hydro would buy the entire 12,500 hectare forest, or indeed whether it would do anything.
He said the deal is being handled directly by Hydro Chairman Maurice Strong.
He said he did not know if Strong, who was on his way from Japan yesterday, still had business interests in Costa Rica.
This is not the first time that the New Democratic government has been blindsided by the peripatetic Strong.
Hired in 1992, the 65-year-old energy entrepreneur has been given free rein by [Rhodes Scholar] Premier [of Ontario] Bob Rae.
As a young man Strong was a frequent visitor at the home of diplomat Saul Rae, the Premier's father. Rae still has fond memories of "Uncle Mo".
Since then, Strong has emerged as one of the most intriguing figures on the international stage, operating in the interstices between politics and business.
As journalist Elaine Dewar pointed out in a revealing 1992 SATURDAY NIGHT piece, Strong's signature has been the "mingling of public and private in the cause of public policy."
His business arrangements have been so complicated they make the head spin. Strong's deals have involved U.S. oil interests, Saudi arms merchant Adnan Kashoggi, Canada's Power Corp. and the man who is now federal Finance Minister, Paul Martin.
Under the Trudeau Liberals, Strong headed up key federal crown corporations, most notably Petro-Canada and the Canada Development Investment Corp.
He's been chosen twice by the United Nations to run environmental summits and is still head of some thing called the World Earth Council.
In his spare time, Strong has supported New Age movements in the U.S. and has helped finance a second Ark in preparation for the next Deluge. Strong also has had business dealings in Costa Rica. One of his most recent Costa Rican adventures pitted him against an Indian tribe which accused him of trying to build a hotel on native land.
So when Costa Rica's new president-elect, Jose Mana Figueres, came to Ottawa on an unofficial visit this year, it made perfect sense that he should talk to Strong and Hydro.
An official from the Costa Rican embassy, who asked not to be identified, said the meeting between Figueres and "the president of Hydro" took place in late April but that talk of ajungle purhcase was "just speculation."
He also said a Hydro-Costa Rica deal could be announced soon.
If any other government were in power, the notion of an Ontario crown corporation buyingg a jungle in Central America would seem an impossible absurdity.
But this is the NDP. And Hydro is run by Maurice Strong. So while the notion may still be absurd, it certainly is not impossible.
But, wait! It gets even better. And you're just going to love the ending! [Hey, kids! Keep working on finding out who this mysterious FAMOUS PERSON really is!
Okay, folks, you're all hanging in admirably well. First, this hilariously sardonic commentary on Maurice Strong's "jungle fund"; and then the staggering aftershock! Now, I want to make just one thing perfectly clear first. We in Canada take full responsibility for the tootsie-freezing Winter winds we send down to the States. Heck, we're even proud of them, and manufacture them for you with extra-special care. But we take no responsibility for Maurice Strong, who is clearly an Force of Nature, on a Cosmic scale. SO DON'T BLAME US IN THE FUTURE. Right? We DISOWN ALL RESPONSIBILITY FOR HIM!
Having made that clear, let's proceed through the following comments to the terrifying climax!
Thomas Walkom, Queen's Park
Maurice Strong's jungle adventure lives.
The Hydro chairman won't back down from his plan to investigate the purchase of thousands of acres of rain forest in Costa Rica.
Yesterday, he told reporters it would be "irresponsible" for Hydro not to consider buying a piece of the Central American jungle.
He said such a move would cost the publicly owned utility mere tens of thousands of dollars. Jaded scribes had assumed that Hydro's imperial thrust had been thwarted on Tuesday.
That was when Economic Development Minister Frances Lankin told the Legislature that as far as she was concerned, Hydro's jungle plan was a no-go.
"I find it astounding that we would be considering, particularly in these times, to spend ratepayers' money in that way," she said. "As one minister of the Crown, my advice to the Premier and the minister would be to say we wouldn'tsupport this kind of expenditure."
That sounded definitive.
Lankin is one of the most senior members of cabinet. Under provincial law, the cabinet has the power to tell Hydro what to do.
But few reckoned with Maurice Strong. The 65-year-old energy entrepreneur has been around the block a few times.
He's dealt with presidents and kings, arms merchants and moguls.
He has run international summits.
He knows Pierre Trudeau
He's supped at the home of Premier Bob Rae's father, Saul. He owned his own company when Frances Lankin was still a toddler.
More 20 years ago, THE NEW YORKER magazine lauded Strong as the man upon whom "the survival of civilization in something like its present form might depend."
So when a minister of the Crown suggested that perhaps it wouldn't be the wisest use of money in the world for Hydro to buy a rain forest, Strong was undeterred.
He said that comments made "impulsively"'by a cabinet minister wouldn't move him.
He pointed out that he is the head of Hydro. "In the final analysis, we have a responsibility to carry out our duties," he said.
Indeed, a newspaper with less grace than THE STAR m ight have summed up the chairman's comments in the following pithy fashion "Mo to Earth: Butt out." Faced with the iron will of Chairman Maurice, the cabinet became more circumspect.
Questioned in the Legislature yesterday, Lankin said that she still thought it unwise for an Ontario crown corporation to buy a jungle.
But, she added, now that the issue has become controversial, everyone should wait for Energy Minister Bud Wildman to return and sort matters out.
Anyway, as she explained later to reporters, it was just her personal opinion.
Speaking for Rae, who is in China, Deputy Prime Minister Floyd Laughren echoed the same cautious sentiment.
Wildman, at a native affairs meeting in Quebec, has been wisely keeping his head down.
Strong's personal interest in the jungles of Costa Rica stems from two sources.
First, he owns a hotel complex on 300 hectares of land in that country. His hotel business got him in some trouble with both the Costa Rican government and a local Indian band which claimed he had built on their property.
Second, Strong is - as Lankin reiterated yesterday - a man most interested in enviromental questions.
It is all so simple.
Hydro burns coal, which creates carbon dioxide. This leads to the gradual temperature increases known as global warming.
Trees eat carbon dioxide.
If Hydro can keep some alive, then perhaps they will eat some of the carbon dioxide it produces.
Lesser minds might suggest, as did Lankin yesterday, that Hydro should plant trees in Ontario.
Really miniscule minds might suggest that if Hydro were truly interested in preventing global warming, it shouldn't be building coal-fired generating plants in already polluted China.
Absolutely infinitesimal minds might argue that Strong's adopt-a-rain-forest policy is a form of blood money - maintain trees far away so you can pollute with impunity at home.
Such mental midgetry would miss the point. As the poet so aptly put it many years ago: "I am you and you are me and we are all together... I am the walrus. Koo-koo-ka-choo."
Or as Chairman Mo said yesterday: "Why not Costa Rica?"
Ladies and gentlemen, it is my inestimable privilege to introduce to you the next KING OF THE WORLD and COMMANDER EL SUPREMO OF THE NEW WORLD ARMY [Motto: "This Blue's for you"], KING MAURICE!.....
by Jonathan Ferguson
Ontario Hydro chairman Maurice Strong is under mounting international pressure to stand for United Nations Secretary-General, diplomatic and business sources say.
The draft for the prestigious U.N. job is spearheaded by developing countries in Africa and Latin America that could tilt a U.N. General Assembly vote in Strong's favor.
"Maurice has a big following among the developing nations that would help immeasurably if he ultimately decides to go for the job," said Stephen Lewis, Canada's former [Socialist] ambassador to the U.N.
The current Secretary-General, Boutros Boutros-Ghali of Egypt, is expected to leave his post in 1996. Many U.N. members believe it is the turn of a North American to hold the organization's top post for the first time since its creation in 1946.
If the 102-country Non-Aligneded Movement of mostly developing nations pledged to support Strong, he would clearly be the frontrunner for the top U.N. job. Strong told THE STAR yesterday that he is not personally "involved in activities that would pertain to this discussion."
"Whether or not I am being considered is an academic question, since there is a very competent Secretary- General who will occupy that role for some time," Strong said. "While I am flattered that my name would be raised, my present position as chairman of Ontario Hydro has its own full share of responsibilities."
The draft surfaced this week when Strong supporters in the international business community fretted over his handling of Ontario Hydro's controversial plan to purchase a jungle tract in Costa Rica for around $10 million.
Strong, a leading player on the international environmental scene who has served as an Under- Secretary General of the U.N., has had previous controversial dealings in Costa Rica.
A recent Costa Rican business investment resulted in an Indian tribe accusing him of trying to build a hotel on native land. "Our concern is the appearance of conflict between Strong the able public servant and Strong the entrepreneur at a time when his name is gaining momentum throughout the world for the U.N. post," said a European-based financier and Strong confidante.
"We're at the sensitive point where the job is being raised tentatively to Maurice. Numerous people internationally have initiated talks with Maurice. We don't want them backing off."
Former prime minister Brian Mulroney was the last Canadian whose name was on a list for the top U.N. job - in 1991, with then-U.S. president George Bush's blessing.
But unlike Mulroney, who bowed out of the race when it became clear his support didn't extend far beyond North America, Strong is expected to win multilateral support in recognition of his career as an international humanitarian.
His international resume includes: founder of the U.N. Environment Program, head of U.N. relief efforts in Ethiopia in the mid-1980s, and secretary-general of the 1992 U.N. Conference on the Environment and Development. Strong solidified his reputation among the world's developing nations in 1992 when he accused the U.S. of committing environmental aggression against the rest of the world.
"At the military level, the United States is the custodian. At the environmental level, the United States is clearly the greatest risk," Strong said before acting as chairman of the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in June, 1992.
In the race to succeed Boutros-Ghali, Canada has the edge over other nations.
While North America is the favored continent, the U.S. is ruled out by many diplomats because of its clout and the U.N. headquarters in New York. Strong's blue-chip cast of supporters, said sources close to the rapidly organizing draft, include:
But, hey, why leave it to the pro's? You can have a part of the action, too! I'm afraid that the best "loot-the-world" jobs in the new U.N. Administration are already spoken for, but there are still some highly-lucrative positions open for Tax Collectors, Firearms Confiscators and New Thought Enforcers. If you would like to be considered for one of these, send off your properly-sycophantic application right now!
Your application may be helped immeasurably if:
Really eager would-be slaves and oppressors might try calling the U.N. directly; your chances may be likewise improved if you speak with a heavy German, Russian or Eastern European accent and include the phrase "New Vorld ORDER!" in every sentence.
The rest of you had better finish off those bunkers in your back gardens as soon as possible. Try not to waste any hydro in constructing them - Maurice is tired enough of his present job as it is. He doesn't need any extra pressure.
So, you think that this Starcrossed Secretary-General- in-Waiting is just a good humoured old buffoon, right?
Well, here are some hard facts extracted from Donald McAlvany's excellent book TOWARD A NEW WORLD ORDER [see book list for ordering information], must reading for everyone seriously interested in these matters....
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Maurice Strong is a man to watch! The billionaire Canadian businessman is an employee of the United Nations; an employee ofthe Rockefeller and Rothschild's trusts and projects; a director of the Aspen Institute for Humanistic Studies; the organiser of the first World Conference on the Environment in 1992; the founder and first head ofthe U.N. Environment Program; the secretary general (and chief organizer) of the UNCED Earth Summit in Rio in June 1992, and a leading socialist, environmentalist, New World Order manipulator, occultist, and New Ager.In the mid- 1980s, Strong joined the World Commission on the Environment where he helped produce the 1987 Brundtland Report widely believed to be the "incendiary" which ignited the present "Green movement."
Strong, who spearheaded the Earth Summit, has complained that "the United States is clearly the greatest risk to the world's ecological health," and wrote in an UNCED report in August 1991 that:
"It is clear that current lifestyles and consumption patterns of the affluent middle-class . . . involving high meat intake, consumption of large amounts of frozen and convenience foods, ownership of motor vehicles, small electric appliances, home and work place air-conditioning, and suburban housing are not sustainable. . . . A shift is necessary toward life-styles less geared to environmental damaging consumption patterns."
Strong has forcefully advocated a new economic order based on the re-distribution of the developed world's industries and wealth to the Third World. Strong is indeed an arch socialist.
The Trilateral Commission recently published book, Beyond Interdependence: The Meshing Of the WorId's Economy and the Earth's Ecology. Rockefeller wrote the foreword and Maurice Strong wrote the introduction, saying in part:
"This book couldn't appear at a better time, with the preparation for the Earth Summit moving into gear . . . it will help guide decisions that will literally determine the fate of the earth.....Rio will have the political capacity to produce the basic changes needed in our international economic agendas and in our institutions of governance."
Strong has established what could be the global headquarters for the New Age movement in the San Luis Valley of Colorado at the foot of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains near Crestone, Colorado. He and his occultic wife, Hanne, call the Baca an international spiritual community which they hope will serve as a model for the way the world should be if humankind is to survive - a sort of United Nations of religious beliefs. The Baca (as the center is called) is replete with monasteries; the Haidakhrndi Universal Ashram, a Vedic temple where devotees worship the Vedic mother goddess; amulet- carrying Native American shamans; a $175,000 solar- powered Hindu temple; a mustard-yellow tower called a ziggurat; a subterranean Zen Buddhist center complete with a computer and organic gardens; a house full of thousands of crystals; and even Shirley MacLaine and her New Age followers.
In 1978, a mystic informed Hanne and Maurice Strong that "the Baca would become the center for a new planetary order which would evolve from the economic collapse and environmental catastrophes that would sweep the globe in the years to come." The Strongs say they see the Baca, which they call 'The Valley Of the Refuge Of World Truths '",as the paradigm for the entire planet and say that the fate of the earth is at stake. Shirley MacLaine agrees - her astrologer told her to move to the Baca, and she did. She is building a New Age study center at the Baca where people can take short week-long courses on the occult! Apparently, the Kissingers, the Rockefellers, the McNamaras, the Rothschild's, and other Establishment New World Order elitists all agree as well- for they do their pilgrimage to the Baca - where politics and the occult-the New World Order and the New Age - all merge. Watch Maurice Strong and watch the Baca!
Much of the above information about the Strong and the Baca comes from an interview entitled "The Wizard Of the Baca Grande," which Maurice Strong conducted with WEST magazine of Alberta, Canada May 1990. Strong concluded the interview with a thought- provoking, apocalyptic story from a novel he says he would like to write:
"Each year the World Economic Forum convenes in Davos, Switzerland. Over a thousand CEOs, prime ministers, finance ministers, and leading academics gather in February to attend meetings and set the economic agendas for the year ahead.What if a small group of these word leaders were to conclude that the principle risk to the earth comes from the actions of the rich countries? And if the world is to survive, those rich countries would have to sign an agreement reducing their impact on the environment. Will they do it? Will the rich countries agree to reduce their impact on the environment? Will they agree to save the earth?
The group's conclusion is 'no.' The rich countries won't do it. They won't change. So, in order to save the planet, the group decides: isn't the only hope for the planet that the industrialized civilizations collapse? Isn't it our responsibility to bring that about?
This group of world leaders form a secret society to bring about a world collapse. It's February. They're all at Davos. These aren't terrorists - they're world leaders. They have positioned themselves in the world's commodity and stock markets. They've engineered, using their access to stock exchanges, and computers, and gold supplies, a panic. Then they prevent the markets from closing. They jam the gears. They have mercenaries who hold the rest of the world leaders at Davros as hostage. The markets can't close. The rich countries...?" and Strong makes a slight motion with his fingers as if he were flicking a cigarette butt out of the window.
I sat there spellbound. This is not any story-teller talking. This is Maurice Strong. He knows these world leaders. He is, in fact, co-chairman of the Council of the World Economic Forum. He sits at the fulcrum of power. He is in a position to do it.
McAlvany's exellent book goes on to describe...
"The Earth Summit must establish a whole new basis for relations between rich and poor, North and South including a concerted attack on poverty as a central priority for the 21st century. This is now as imperative in terms of our environ- mental security as it is on moral and humani- tarian grounds. We owe at least this much to future generations, from whom we have bor- rowed a fragile planet called Earth."
-Maurice Strong
Billed as the "mother of all summits," with up to 40,000 government officials and environmentalists from 167 countries in attendance, the June 4-14 Earth Summit was the biggest gathering of world leaders ever held. Described by Time magazine as a "New Age carnival," the summit (and related activities) was attended by the Dalai Lama of Tibet, thousands of New Agers and occultists (including John Denver and Shirley MacLaine), numerous leftist groups, and virtually every environmental group in the world - 7,892 non-governmental organizations from 167 countries.
As the Wall Street Journal said: "The summit on Mother Nature was asking: 'What is needed to save the world and how much is the world willing to do to save itself?'" The Audubon Society called the Earth Summit "the most important meeting in the history of mankind", and Maurice Strong said at the opening session of the Summit:
"Nothing less than the fate of the planet is at stake. . . . No place on the planet can remain an island ofaffluence in a sea of misery. . . . We're either going to save Ihe world or no one will be saved. I think we're at a real point of civilizalion change. We must, from here on in, all go down the same path. . . . There may not be another chance."
The Rocky Mountain News, in a May 31, 1992 article entitled "Agenda For Rio: Save the Planet Earth," posed a question:
"Who is killing planet earth? Styrofoam-crushing, beef-eating, gasoline-guzzling, air conditioner-blasting Americans and their partners in the developed nations? Rain forest-razing, sewer-fouling, baby-booming peasants of the Third World? Air-poisoning, river-killing, radioactive waste-leaking, dirty coal-burning denizens of formerly communist Eastern European countries? All of us are killing planet earth! "
Many environmentalist leaders touted the summit as an ecological Bretton Woods, just as world leaders crafted the post-World War II international financial system in New Hampshire, the leaders of the post-Cold War era would lay the foundations for the "era of sustainable development." Lester Brown, president of Worldwatch Institute, said: "I think when we look back we will see the Rio conference as the event that marked the end of an era and the start of a new one." "
The June Earth Summit in Rio was not just about the pseudo-environmental crisis; it was not just about clean air, clean water, acid rain, global warming, or endangered species: it was about massive wealth redistribution from the industrial countries (i.e., the North) to the Third World countries (i.e., the South) - from the rich to the poor countries. It was about massive global socialisn people control, and world government. It was also an unprecedented global media platform, for militant anti- American eco-propaganda with emotional diatribes about America's alleged crimes against the global environment.
The summit was concerned with writing a World Constitution which will deal with ways and means of eliminating pollution; cutting down the alleged "global warming"; cutting down on the emission of carbon dioxide; stalling the rate of ozone depletion; adopting plans to prevent overpopulation, acid rain, nuclear fallout, and to promote clean water and clean air; and depriving landowners ofthe right to use their land in any manner other than that permitted by UNCED or its local or regional representative. Their broad goals include:
"lt is a mistake to think that we can control the greed of mankind in the long run by an appeal to conscience. . . . The only way we can cherish and nurture other and more precious freedoms is by relinguishing the freedom to breed, and that very soon."
The U.N. Population fund defends the Chinese population control regime, which uses mandatory abortion and sterilization, female infanticide, and incarceration of uncooperative parents. Paul Ehrlich, another Green' population controller, in his books, The Population Bomb and The Population Explosion, praises the Chinese approach but calls it inadequate. He recommends a Chinese-style population control program supervised by the U. N., and the adding of sterilants to water and food supplies.
It is very significant that the Greens are very preoccupied with population growth in America. The Club of Rome would like to see the U.S. population reduced to 75 million - they don't say what will happen to the other 175 million Americans (perhaps Russian nukes or AIDS can solve that problem). In Earth Day - The Beginning, David Brower declared:
"That's the first thing to do - start controlling the population in affluent white America, where a child born to a white American will use about 50 times the resources of a child born in the black ghetto."
for the first time, during the writing of this book, this writer has begun to understand the relationship between the Rockefeller-backed Planned Parenthood, the abortion and euthanasia movement on the one hand, and the Green movement on the other. Both groups want to shrink the worlds population to save Mother Earth and our scarce resources. Both are preoccupied with death, and opposed to life. As Deuteronomy 30:19 says,
"I call heaven and earth to record this day against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing: therefore, choose life, that both thou and thy seed may live".
Of course, you could always get that spaceship ready and prepare to flee. But Emperor Maurice might really be taxing fuel by then!
Hmmm...that stuff about "nations no longer having sovereignty", "overall population reduction", and "a stronger role for the U.N." makes me, shall we say, "nervous".
And if "global warming" is a burgeoning "threat", why wouldn't Maurice be doing everything in his power to persuade his good friend and partner Paul Desmarais, and his ASIA POWER CORP., not to finance or encourage the "development" of all of those soft- coal, highly-polluting, "greenhouse gas"-producing power stations in China?
Or am I confusing "Maurice the World Statesman" here with "Maurice the Entrepreneur"?
And if you're concerned about preparing for, and surviving, the coming Y2K [computer millenium bug] crisis....
In our own experience, we've been astounded to see the difference between individual wire services [the primary source of news for many newspapers and other media outlets] in the way they treat particular stories; between the British and North American press in which major stories are covered and which are just suppressed by lack of media exposure; and by the all-too-revealing stories which were consistently ignored because they simply proved too embarrassing or inconvenient to those in power.
Fortunately, at least one highly-respected journalist has publicly confessed that this is indeed the case. Asked to give a toast before the prestigious New York Press Club in 1953, John Swinton, the former Chief of Staff at the NEW YORK TIMES, made this candid confession [it's worth noting that Swinton was called "The Dean of His Profession" by other newsmen, who admired him greatly]:
There is no such thing, at this date of the world's history, as an independent press. You know it and I know it. There is not one of you who dares to write your honest opinions, and if you did, you know beforehand that it would never appear in print. I am paid weekly for keeping my honest opinions out of the paper I am connected with. Others of you are paid similar salaries for similar things, and any of you who would be so foolish as to write honest opinions would be out on the streets looking for another job.If I allowed my honest opinions to appear in one issue of my paper, before twenty-four hours my occupation would be gone. The business of the journalist is to destroy the truth; to lie outright; to pervert; to vilify; to fawn at the feet of mammon, and to sell the country for his daily bread. You know it and I know it and what folly is this toasting an independent press. We are the tools and vassals of the rich men behind the scenes. We are the jumping jacks, they pull the strings and we dance. Our talents, our possibilities and our lives are all the property of other men. We are intellectual prostitutes.
In the intervening period, things have got even worse! Media concentration and the virtual disappearance of independent newspapers and fearless investigative reporting often means that the only things you can really trust the media on are the sports results, the classified ads and the weather - and, not infrequently, they're even wrong about the weather! Add the biases and liberal preconceptions of the typical journalist to the political correctness strictures which now prevail and is it any wonder that somewhere and somehow the truth gets lost in the process of reporting it? Consciously or not, most journalists function as paid propagandists and newspapers present the viewpoints which the controlling elite wish us to hear and be influenced by.
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