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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Southern Star, post: 1945372, member: 59205&quot;]<font size="3">Second Session 64th Congress Of the United States of America U.S. Congressional Record February 9, 1917&nbsp;&nbsp; PAGE 2947 &amp; PAGE 2948</font></p><p><br /></p><p>In March, 1915, the J.P. Morgan interests, the steel, shipbuilding, 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 of the United States.</p><p>“These 12 men worked the problem out by selecting 170 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 newspapers. 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 interest of the purchasers.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>“This contract is in existence at the present time, and it accounts for the news columns of the daily press of the country being filled with all sorts of preparedness argument and misrepresentations as to the present condition of the United States Army and Navy and the possibility and probability of the United States being attacked by foreign foes.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>“<span style="color: red">This policy also included the suppression of everything in opposition to the wishes of the interests served.</span> The effectiveness of this scheme has been conclusively demonstrated by the character of stuff carried in the daily press throughout the country since March, 1915. They have resorted to anything necessary to commercialize public sentiment and sandbag the national congress into making extravagant and wasteful appropriations for the Army and Navy under the false pretense that it was necessary. Their stock argument is &gt;that it is “patriotism.” They are playing on every prejudice and passion of the American people.”&nbsp; ~ Congressman Oscar Callaway</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>&quot;We know in the not too distant future, a half dozen corporations are going to control the media. We took this step (merger) to ensure we were one of them&quot;--Time Warner spokesperson commenting on the Time Warner/AOL merger.&nbsp; July, 2000[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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