Dr. Stanley Monteith (via NewsWithViews):

“John Swinton was the editorial page editor of the New York Times from 1860-1870. When he addressed a group of journalists at the Twilight Club in New York City on April 12, 1883, he stated:

“There is no such thing in America as an independent press, unless it is in the country towns. You know it and I know it. There is not one of you who dare to write his honest opinions, and if you did you know beforehand they would never appear in print. I am paid $150 a week for keeping my honest opinions out of the paper I am connected with. Others of you are paid similar salaries for doing similar things. If I should permit honest opinions to be printed in one issue of my paper, like Othello, before twenty-four hours, my occupation would be gone. . . . We are intellectual prostitutes.”[3]

Very little has changed since that time except for the fact that members of the secret cabal control more media outlets, and they have developed very sophisticated methods of controlling the reality of the American people.

(Lila: I have had seven years of first-hand observation of the way it is done today. You post a piece. It goes no where, but suddenly the points you raised are taken up by a bunch of people who massage its message so that it comes to mean a slightly different thing from what you intended. Slightly different, but none the less crucially different. Your piece vanishes into oblivion. The creators of the massaged message rise to prominence. Things go on as before, even while the massagers are awarded prizes for their exposes by Yale, Harvard and the rest.]

On rare occasions a courageous member of the media has tried to expose the influence of the secret cabal. Richard Harwood worked for The Washington Post for 22 years, and during those years he wrote what he was told to write, but after Richard Harwood retired, he wrote an article titled “Ruling Class Journalists” that exposed the totalitarian influence of the Council on Foreign Relations. Why is that important? It’s important because the CFR is one of the major “front organizations ” for the secret cabal that controls our nation.

On October 30, 1993, Richard Harwood wrote:

“The president is a member. So is his secretary of state, the deputy secretary of state, all five of the undersecretaries, several of the assistant secretaries and the department’s legal adviser. The president’s national security adviser and his deputy are members. The director of Central Intelligence (like all previous directors) and the chairman of the Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board are members. The secretary of defense, three undersecretaries and at least four assistant secretaries are members. The secretaries of the department of housing and urban development, interior, health and human services, and the chief White House public relations man, David Gergen, are members along with the speaker of the House and the majority leader of the Senate.”[4]

If Richard Harwood’s information is correct, why don’t the American people realize the CFR controls the American government? Richard Harwood’s article was published on a back page of The Washington Post, the article wasn’t mentioned on radio or television, and the article was never quoted by other newspapers. A similar fate has befallen every effort to expose the existence of the secret cabal.

you would like to verify the fact that most of the major media outlets are owned by “front organizations” affiliated with the secret cabal; i.e. the Trilateral Commission, the CFR, and the Bilderbergs, you should read Professor Ben Bagdikian’s book, “The New Media Monopoly” because it identifies the five (or six) international corporations that control 90% of the major media outlets in the United States, [5] and you should also read “The Membership List of the Brotherhood of Darkness,” compiled by Radio Liberty, or Robert Gaylon Ross’s book, “Who’s Who of the Elite.” [6] The major corporations are:

Times Warner (AOL) (Trilateral Commission)
Bertelsmann (Trilateral Commission)
Viacom (CBS) (Council on Foreign Relations) (CFR)
Disney (ABC) (CFR)
GE-Comcast (NBC) (CFR)
Fox News: Ruppert Murdoch (CFR)