Aside from being marred by an almost non-stop barrage of naively
sourced music, this is an excellent work of research and storytelling.
The filmmakers make their opinions clear while exposing yet more dirty
politics from the usual suspects of interested parties. It leads one to
ponder the outcome had there been a Wikileaks at the time.
There IS no legitimate press! As long as people fail to realize that, we will continue to be played for suckers -
John Swinton, former Chief of Staff for the New York Times stated:
"There is no such thing at this date of the world's history in America as an independent press. You know it and I know it. "There is not one of you who dare write your honest opinion and if you did you know beforehand that it would never appear in print. I am paid weekly for keeping my honest opinion 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 in the streets looking for another job. If I allowed my honest opinion to appear in one issue of my paper, before 24 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 this country and his race for his daily bread. You know it and I know it. "What folly is this toasting an independent press? We are the tools of vassals of rich men behind the scenes. We are the jumping jacks, they pull our strings and we dance.
"Our talents, our possibilities and our lives are all property of other men. We are intellectual prostitutes."
- New York Press Club, 1953-
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