J.P. Morgan Interests
Buy 25 of America's Leading Newspapers
and Insert Editors
Buy 25 of America's Leading Newspapers
and Insert Editors
U.S.
Congressional Record February 9, 1917, page 2947
Congressman Calloway announced that the
J.P. Morgan interests bought 25 of America's leading newspapers, and
inserted their own editors, in order to control the media.
J.P. Morgan interests bought 25 of America's leading newspapers, and
inserted their own editors, in order to control the media.
The
CHAIRMAN: The Chair will recognize the gentleman from Texas, a member of the
[defense appropriations] committee.
Mr.
CALLAWAY: Mr. Chairman, I ask unanimous consent to insert in the Record a
statement that I have of how the newspapers of this country have been handled
by the munitions manufacturers.
The
CHAIRMAN: The gentleman from Texas asks unanimous consent to extend his remarks
in the Record by inserting a certain statement. Is there any objection?
Mr.
MANN: Mr. Chairman, reserving the right to object, may I ask whether it is the
gentleman's purpose to insert a long list of extracts from newspapers?
Mr.
CALLAWAY: No; it will be a little, short statement not over 2 ½ inches in
length in the Record.
The
CHAIRMAN: Is there any objection?
There
was no objection.
Mr.
CALLAWAY: Mr. Chairman, under unanimous consent, I insert into the Record at
this point a statement showing the newspaper combination, which explains their
activity in the war matter, just discussed by the gentleman from Pennsylvania
[Mr. MOORE]:
“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.
“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 arguments 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.
“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 the 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
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.”
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