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Stanley Baldwin
Fake news has been around
a very long time, and its’ methods haven’t changed much.
In 1931 British Prime
Minister Stanley Baldwin blasted the press with unusual harshness,
“They are engines of
propaganda for the constantly changing policies, desires, personal vices,
personal likes and dislikes of (hostile press barons Rothermere and
Beaverbrook). What are their
methods? Their methods are direct
falsehoods, misrepresentations, half-truths, the alteration of the speaker’s
meaning by publishing a sentence apart from the context….What the
proprietorship of these papers is aiming at is power, and power without responsibility
– the prerogative of the harlot throughout the ages.”
The more things change,
the more they stay the same.
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