While discussing my disappointment with the media last week with a Democrat official, I was told, "Tina, just look at how much money the county gives the Star-Ledger. It's a business, honey."
2005 Media pay-outs as recorded in the Union County Check Registry
Star-Ledger.....................................................115,689.90
NJN Publishing (a division of Star-Ledger).......................11,541.78
North Jersey Newspaper (Suburban News a division of Star-Ledger).18,669.95
La Voz...........................................................42,399.73
Union County Alliance Directions Newsletter......................27,500.00
Devine [The Slime] Media.........................................17,620.34
Westfield Leader..................................................9,603.76
Worrall Commumity Newspapers.....................................8,957.08
Courier News......................................................8,485.97
Union County Voice................................................7,715.00
New Jersey Monthly................................................7,170.00
New York Times....................................................4,819.00
Home News Tribune.................................................1,946.96
Nursing Spectrum..................................................1,936.40
The Washington Post...............................................1,592.86
Union County Women's..............................................1,185.30
Family............................................................1,120.00
NJ Associaiton of Counties........................................1,050.00
Hospital News.....................................................1,020.00
Applied Recruitment.................................................700.00
Art Pride NJ........................................................650.00
The Informer........................................................320.00
This list does not include advertisements placed by event organizers. It also excludes advertisments placed by Union County College.
A detailed listing of the above can be found at http://unioncountywatchdog.org/docs/2005MediaPayOffs.pdf
This research was brought to you by the Union County Watchdog Association. In 2005 the UCWA obtained an electronic copy of the Union County Check registry by paying a fee deemed necessary by the county to redact information before releasing it to the public.
Research such as this can now be easily done by concerned citizens.
The check registry can be viewed on our Web site free of charge to the public at large. www.unioncountywatchdog.org
......“There is no such thing, at this date in the world’s history, as an independent press. You know it, and I know it. There is not one of you who dares to write your honest opinion, and if you did, you know beforehand it would never appear in print. I am paid weekly for keeping my honest opinions 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 on the streets looking for another job. If I allowed my honest opinions 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 his country and his race for his daily bread. We are tools and vessels for rich men behind the scenes.
Our talents, our possibilities and our lives are all the property of other men and politicians. We are intellectual prostitutes.”
Today, some 40 years later, nothing has changed with the “mainstream” media. The plutocrats who control the press let us know only what they want us to know. They keep us in the dark and feed us garbage!
John Swinton, former executive of The New York Times, called by his peers, “the Dean of His Profession,” delivered this speech to the New York Press Club in 1953.
