Character summary: Ludovic Bagman

[Rita Winston]

No: HPFGUIDX 666

--- In HPforGrownups at egroups.com, "Sister Mary Lunatic" wrote:

> ========================================
> 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.
> We are the jumping jacks, they pull the strings and  we dance. Our
> talents, our possibilities and our lives are all the property
> of other men.  We are intellectual prostitutes.
> 
> ~ John Swinton,
> the Chief of Staff for the New York Times, 1953

Nonetheless, the Washington POST published the Pentagon Papers.