This has been debunked... Or has it? You want to see what a cesspool fact checkers and historians dwell in? Read the following link and see how they debunk this.
I got email from Jay Salter, one of my readers, who had come across the John Swinton vignette... He forwarded it to a journalist's discussion area, asking for feedback.
One journalist there, Jeff McMahon, made this response to Jay:
"Yeah, I'll take that bait. The last time I saw that phony quote Swinton was identified as the "chief of staff" of the New York SUN, the date was 1853, and where it now says "I am paid weekly," it then said "I am paid $150 a week." Which is, actually, about how much I made in journalism. Then some liar realized that newspapers don't have chiefs of staff, at least the editorial departments don't, and if you're going to lie you might as well do it big, so they made him the EDITOR IN CHIEF of the New York TIMES in NINETEEN 53. Unfortunately, the editor of the New York Times in 1953 was Turner Catledge.
So, the quote itself betrays a need for journalists because otherwise people who spread such propaganda might go unchecked.
This has been debunked... Or has it? You want to see what a cesspool fact checkers and historians dwell in? Read the following link and see how they debunk this.
Hoop jumping and hilarity ensues!
https://www.blatantpropaganda.org/propaganda/articles/journalists-are-intellectual-prostitutes-says-John-Swinton-of-the-New-York-Times.html
Here's a small snippet:
I got email from Jay Salter, one of my readers, who had come across the John Swinton vignette... He forwarded it to a journalist's discussion area, asking for feedback. One journalist there, Jeff McMahon, made this response to Jay: "Yeah, I'll take that bait. The last time I saw that phony quote Swinton was identified as the "chief of staff" of the New York SUN, the date was 1853, and where it now says "I am paid weekly," it then said "I am paid $150 a week." Which is, actually, about how much I made in journalism. Then some liar realized that newspapers don't have chiefs of staff, at least the editorial departments don't, and if you're going to lie you might as well do it big, so they made him the EDITOR IN CHIEF of the New York TIMES in NINETEEN 53. Unfortunately, the editor of the New York Times in 1953 was Turner Catledge. So, the quote itself betrays a need for journalists because otherwise people who spread such propaganda might go unchecked.