John Swinton Oil on Canvas Stefan Johansson
John Swinton Oil on Canvas Stefan Johansson

Same As It Ever Was (72"x60"/183cm x 152cm) Oil on Canvas

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  • Oil on canvas
  • 72" x 60" (183cm x 152cm)
  • 2018

"There is no such thing in America as an independent press. You are all slaves. You know it, and I know it. There is not one of you who dares to express an honest opinion. If you expressed it, you would know beforehand that it would never appear in print. I am paid for keeping honest opinions out of the paper I am connected with others of you are paid similar salaries for doing similar things. If I should allow honest opinions to be printed in one issue of my paper, I would be like Othello before twenty-four hours.  My occupation would be gone. The business of a journalist is to distort the truth, to lie outright, to pervert, to vilify, 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."  - John Swinton

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