Thanks Alan. Alan Folsom shared Another Angry Voices photo. 1 hr · Russ Hallberg shared Another Angry Voices photo. 14 hrs · Brett Syverson 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 numbers of them to control generally the policy of the daily press in 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 press throughout the country. They found it was only necessary to purchase the control of the 25 greatest papers. The 25 papers were agreed upon; emissarries were sent out 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. — Congressman Oscar Callaway (1917)
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