Step Four - The Art of Propaganda. The Spin and Mainstream media
“In March, 1915, the J.P. Morgan interests, the steel, ship building and powder interests and
their subsidiary organizations, got together 12 men high up in the newspaper world and
employed them to select the most influential newspapers in the United States and sufficient
number of them to control generally the policy of the daily press in the United States. “
These 12 men worked the problems out by selecting 179 newspapers, and then began,
by an elimination process, to retain only those necessary for the purpose of controlling
the general policy of the daily press throughout the country. They found it was only necessary
to purchase the control of 25 of the greatest papers.
The 25 papers were agreed upon; emissaries were sent to purchase the policy, national and international,
of these papers; an agreement was reached; the policy of the papers was bought, to be paid for by the month;
an editor was furnished for each paper to properly supervise and edit information regarding the questions of
preparedness, militarism, financial policies and other things of national and international nature considered
vital to the interests of the purchasers.
“In March, 1915, the J.P. Morgan interests, the steel, ship building and powder interests and
their subsidiary organizations, got together 12 men high up in the newspaper world and
employed them to select the most influential newspapers in the United States and sufficient
number of them to control generally the policy of the daily press in the United States. “
These 12 men worked the problems out by selecting 179 newspapers, and then began,
by an elimination process, to retain only those necessary for the purpose of controlling
the general policy of the daily press throughout the country. They found it was only necessary
to purchase the control of 25 of the greatest papers.
The 25 papers were agreed upon; emissaries were sent to purchase the policy, national and international,
of these papers; an agreement was reached; the policy of the papers was bought, to be paid for by the month;
an editor was furnished for each paper to properly supervise and edit information regarding the questions of
preparedness, militarism, financial policies and other things of national and international nature considered
vital to the interests of the purchasers.
