President Kennedy and Medicare

September 12, 2013 Independent Press History, Independent Press, JFK, MLK, RFK, Politics 0

President Kennedy and Medicare

The “socialized medicine” gambit was around much longer than most people realized, and it almost killed Medicare.

President Kennedy

“There is no such thing… in America, as an independent press… If I allowed my honest opinions to appear in one issue of my paper, before twenty-four hours my occupation would be gone. The business of the journalists 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. You know it and I know it, and what folly is this toasting an independent press? We are the tools and vassals of rich men behind the scenes… Our talents, our possibilities and our lives are all the property of other men. We are intellectual prostitutes.” John Swinton,New York Times Chief Editor 1880

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