thegreatresoot: A while ago, I made a post analyzing and quoting an article titled “Ruling Class Journalists” by Richard Harwood on October 30, 1993 published by the Washington Post. The article outlines how the owners and prominent journalists of media conglomerates making up the so-called free press in the United States of America are by and large members of the Council on Foreign Relations. Harwood calls the Council on Foreign Relations the “nearest thing we have to a ruling establishment in the United States”.
He goes through the history of the symbiotic relationship between the press and the Council on Foreign Relations, detailing many of its members. He also makes it clear that the press is part of the establishment and is actively involved in shaping American policy through the Council on Foreign Relations, not merely serving as a watchdog for the public’s interest as Americans have been told.
Today, I’m going to be demonstrating how the banking establishment established near full control over the major organs of the free press even before the Council on Foreign Relations’ creation in 1921.
Congressman Francis Oscar Callaway (TX) spoke before the House of Representatives on February 3, 1917 regarding why wasteful military spending, often on obsolete battleships, resulting in high deficits in the national budget. While speaking on this issue, he referenced testimony of the fact that the Morgan family and J.P. Morgan interests (after J.P. Morgan’s death in 1913) had purchased the most prominent newspapers in the country in order to control public opinion.
He stated that the J.P. Morgan men had “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”. Once this committee had been established they selected 179 newspapers and sifted through them to determine how many would be necessary to purchase in order for their banking interest to control the opinions and sentiment of the general public.
They discovered that they would need to only purchase 25 of the country’s most prominent newspapers in order to be able to use them to create, control and manipulate public opinion, “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”. Congressman Callaway mentioned how they could use these newspapers to create the public’s opinions regarding foreign policy, financial policy and things of an international nature that were important to the vital interests of the purchasers. He also mentioned how this level of media control would also allow the J.P. Morgan family and interests to suppress everything that was in opposition to their interests.
Callaway mentioned how since March, 1915 these papers were manipulating public sentiment into supporting wasteful military spending that was not necessary or useful to America’s campaign in World War I.
Callaway may have been primarily concerned with wasteful military spending, budget deficits and war profiteering (researching the Nye Committee to learn more about this) as a result of this Morgan owned media cabal. However, this level of media conclusion with banking interests and bloodline families has far more serious implications and dangers in terms of the manipulation of public opinion. This consolidation was a precursor towards the media’s integration into the Council on Foreign Relations and their role as a mouthpiece for the globalist, one-world government establishment.
Remember this information the next time you hear someone claiming that the United States of America, or any country for that matter, has a so-called free press that serves as a watchdog for the public’s interests.
Congressional Record, February 3, 1917, Volume 54 pp. Page 2571 (Francis Oscar Callaway mentioning J.P. Morgan interests buying up and consolidating media control): https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/GPO-CRECB-1917-pt3-v54/pdf/GPO-CRECB-1917-pt3-v54-8-2.pdf
“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.
These 12 men worked the problem 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.
This policy also included the suppression of everything in opposition to the wishes of the interests served. 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 that it is “patriotism.” They are playing on every prejudice and passion of the American people.”
He goes through the history of the symbiotic relationship between the press and the Council on Foreign Relations, detailing many of its members. He also makes it clear that the press is part of the establishment and is actively involved in shaping American policy through the Council on Foreign Relations, not merely serving as a watchdog for the public’s interest as Americans have been told.
Today, I’m going to be demonstrating how the banking establishment established near full control over the major organs of the free press even before the Council on Foreign Relations’ creation in 1921.
Congressman Francis Oscar Callaway (TX) spoke before the House of Representatives on February 3, 1917 regarding why wasteful military spending, often on obsolete battleships, resulting in high deficits in the national budget. While speaking on this issue, he referenced testimony of the fact that the Morgan family and J.P. Morgan interests (after J.P. Morgan’s death in 1913) had purchased the most prominent newspapers in the country in order to control public opinion.
He stated that the J.P. Morgan men had “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”. Once this committee had been established they selected 179 newspapers and sifted through them to determine how many would be necessary to purchase in order for their banking interest to control the opinions and sentiment of the general public.
They discovered that they would need to only purchase 25 of the country’s most prominent newspapers in order to be able to use them to create, control and manipulate public opinion, “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”. Congressman Callaway mentioned how they could use these newspapers to create the public’s opinions regarding foreign policy, financial policy and things of an international nature that were important to the vital interests of the purchasers. He also mentioned how this level of media control would also allow the J.P. Morgan family and interests to suppress everything that was in opposition to their interests.
Callaway mentioned how since March, 1915 these papers were manipulating public sentiment into supporting wasteful military spending that was not necessary or useful to America’s campaign in World War I.
Callaway may have been primarily concerned with wasteful military spending, budget deficits and war profiteering (researching the Nye Committee to learn more about this) as a result of this Morgan owned media cabal. However, this level of media conclusion with banking interests and bloodline families has far more serious implications and dangers in terms of the manipulation of public opinion. This consolidation was a precursor towards the media’s integration into the Council on Foreign Relations and their role as a mouthpiece for the globalist, one-world government establishment.
Remember this information the next time you hear someone claiming that the United States of America, or any country for that matter, has a so-called free press that serves as a watchdog for the public’s interests.
Congressional Record, February 3, 1917, Volume 54 pp. Page 2571 (Francis Oscar Callaway mentioning J.P. Morgan interests buying up and consolidating media control):
https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/GPO-CRECB-1917-pt3-v54/pdf/GPO-CRECB-1917-pt3-v54-8-2.pdf
“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.
These 12 men worked the problem 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.
This policy also included the suppression of everything in opposition to the wishes of the interests served. 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 that it is “patriotism.” They are playing on every prejudice and passion of the American people.”