Translation of "Újságírók" in English

Újságírók vagyunk.

We're journalists.

A történelem jelen állásában nincsen az Egyesült Államokban olyan, hogy független sajtó. Én is tudom, te is tudod. Egy olyan sincsen köztetek, aki le merne írni az őszinte véleményét, de ha megteszed, tudod előre, hogy soha nem jelenne meg nyomtatásban. Azért fizetnek hetente, hogy az igazi véleményemet ne írjam le az újságba, amelyikkel kapcsolatban állok. A többiek hasonlóan vannak fizetve ilyen dolgokért, és ha bárki közületek lenne olyan őrült, hogy az őszinte meglátásait írná le, kint találná magát az utcán másik állás után nézve. Ha én megengedném magamnak, hogy a legőszintébb meglátásaim megjelenjenek a lapom egyik számában, huszonnégy órán belül nem lenne munkám. Az újságírók munkája, hogy lerombolják az igazságot, hogy nyíltan meghazudtolják, elferdítsék, becsméreljék azt Mammon lábainál csúszva, és hogy eladják az országukat és fajtájukat a napi betevőért. Te is tudod, én is tudom, ezért mi ez a baromság a független sajtó ünneplésével? Paprika Jancsik vagyunk, akiket zsinórokon rángatnak. A tehetségünk, a lehetőségeink és az életünk más emberek kezében vannak. Szellemi prostituáltak vagyunk.

- There is no such thing, at this stage of the world’s history in America, as an independent press. You know it and I know it. There is not one of you who dare write your honest opinions, and if you did, you know beforehand that it would never appear in print. I am paid weekly for keeping my honest opinions out of the paper I am connected with. Others of you are paid similar salaries for similar things, and any of you who would be foolish as to write honest opinions would be out on the streets looking for another job. If I allowed my honest opinions to appear in one issue of my papers, before twenty-four hours my occupation would be gone. The business of the journalist 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 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.
- There is no such thing, at this stage of the world’s history in the United States, as an independent press. You know it and I know it. There is not one of you who dare write your honest opinions, and if you did, you know beforehand that it would never appear in print. I am paid weekly for keeping my honest opinions out of the paper I am connected with. Others of you are paid similar salaries for similar things, and any of you who would be foolish as to write honest opinions would be out on the streets looking for another job. If I allowed my honest opinions to appear in one issue of my papers, before twenty-four hours my occupation would be gone. The business of the journalist 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 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.
- There is no such thing, at this stage of the world’s history in The United States of America, as an independent press. You know it and I know it. There is not one of you who dare write your honest opinions, and if you did, you know beforehand that it would never appear in print. I am paid weekly for keeping my honest opinions out of the paper I am connected with. Others of you are paid similar salaries for similar things, and any of you who would be foolish as to write honest opinions would be out on the streets looking for another job. If I allowed my honest opinions to appear in one issue of my papers, before twenty-four hours my occupation would be gone. The business of the journalist 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 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.