"Newspapers have to sell in order to live, so does commercial T.V That leaves the BBC as the only truly public service medium in this country disseminating information, entertainment, and, in the case of race relations, propaganda. We are unashamed to admit it is what we are doing." - (Gerry Hines, BBC, Programme Organiser, in Race Today)

"If the media can create a defeat of our armies on the battlefield, they can also eventually defeat the viability of our system. In that regard, it may be later than we think." (Gen. William Westmoreland, Washington D.C. 22 April, 1978)

"I am not certain what we should fear more, a street full of soldiers who are out to plunder, or a room full of writers who are used to lie." (Samuel Johnson)

"I have heard MPs and senior political aficionados complain that if they were to say on BBC what they really think, they would never be invited again, and not to be invited again could make a quick end to an aspiring politician's prospects." (Roy Bramwell, Inter-City Research Centre. Blatant Bias Corporation)

Leslie Littlewood, President of the Association of Broadcasting Staffs addressing the TUC Conference, December, 1970 said that his 13,000 programme and technical staff were 'a damned sight more to the left than most of the delegates in the hall."

"Television lies. All television lies. It lies persistently, instinctively and by habit. Everyone involved lies. A culture of mendacity surrounds the medium and those who work there live it, breathe it and prosper by it. I know of no area of public life - no, not even politics - more saturated by a professional cynicism. If you want a word that takes you to the core of it, I would offer 'rigged'. ... is it dishonest for the presenter to imply that the pundit in the chair is free to offer any opinion, when the truth is that 50 pundits were telephoned but only the fellow prepared to offer the requisite opinion was invited?" (Matthew Parish. British Press Awards Columnist of the Year. Daily Mail, 21st, April, 1996)

"If you have nothing to fill it (television) with, then turn to blacks and the coloureds... you can always find a sufficient number of blacks who are only too glad to get on television." (Reverend Wilfred Wood, Chairman, BBC's Religious Advisory Committee)

"We are all Marxists now." (Sir. Charles Curran, BBC, 10th, October, 1970)

"You tend to find that television does accumulate around it left-of-centre people.... and the whole direction of television is left-of-centre." (Anthony Smith, BBC Twenty For Hours, 1970/1971)

"Each year advertisers spend £1,000,000,000 in the belief that television can influence human behaviour. The television industry enthusiastically agrees with them, but nonetheless contends that its programmes of violence do not have any such influence." (U.S.A. Presidential Commission)

"There is no such thing as an independent Press in America, unless it is in the country towns.. You know it, and I know it. There is not one of you who dares to express an honest opinion. If you express an honest opinion, you know beforehand it would never appear in print. I am paid $150 a week for keeping my honest opinion 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 newspaper, like Othello, before twenty-four hours, my occupation would be gone. The business of the New York journalist is to destroy the truth, to lie outright, to pervert, to vilify, to fawn at the feet of Mammon; to sell his race and his country for his daily bread. We are tools and vassals of rich men behind the scenes. We are intellectual prostitutes." (John Swinton, Editor of the New York Tribune, to the New York Press Association, on February, 26th, 1936)

"A New York firm of publishers recently brought out a book entitled, The Washington Correspondent, in which some extremely interesting statements appeared. The author records the answers to a questionnaire placed before several journalists. The question of how far the freedom of a journalist extended was often laconically answered to the effect that everyone knew they had to write what their editors wanted, or that they would be thrown out of the editorial departments if they did not write what was wanted. The writer of the book, Leo C. Roston, remarks that in a society where freedom is a nice slogan, limited by economic reality, a clear conscience is a luxury restricted to those who have enough money to refuse a compromise at the expense of their personal ideals."

On the way back to his lodgings Hitler writes: "Some interior voice urged me to buy the newspaper (Arbeiterszeitung - The Workman's Journal) paper in that tobacco shop, despite my feelings of revulsion, and to read it through. Doing so I perceived how the masses are duped by duplicitous reporting: No means were too base, provided they could be exploited in the campaign of slander. These journalists were real virtuosos in the art of twisting facts and presenting them in a deceptive form. The theoretical literature was intended for the simpletons of the soi-disant intellectuals belonging to the middle and, naturally, the upper classes. The newspaper propaganda was intended for the masses. This probing into books and newspapers and studying the teachings of Social-Democracy re-awakened my love for my own people. And thus what at first seemed an impassable chasm became the occasion of a closer affection. Having once understood the workings of the colossal system for poisoning the popular mind, only a fool could blame the victims of it. (Adolf Hitler. Mein Kampf)