"We run carelessly to the precipice, after we have put up a façade to prevent ourselves from seeing it.”
Blaise Pascal
This is starting to make more sense.
Apparently Mr. William Cohan, a highly respected journalist, did look at all the relevant information he had been provided, and decided to write a story about rigging in the silver markets.
It was submitted and refused by at least two US publications which refused to run it.
It was submitted and refused by at least two US publications which refused to run it.
Based on past history, one might assume the two national publications that refused to publish it were on the order of The New York Times, and perhaps Bloomberg News or even possibly Forbes.
The actual reasons that they gave for refusing to publish the story are not stated. One can assume they were not sufficient for Mr. Cohan to decide to take his name off of it in his professional judgement, so we can only surmise.
So we cannot tell if this was editorial scruples, a failure in fact checking, or just good old fashioned minding of one's place.
So we cannot tell if this was editorial scruples, a failure in fact checking, or just good old fashioned minding of one's place.
Insiders never speak ill of insiders.
Bill was good with publishing the piece at ZeroHedge with his name on it. So he apparently still had confidence in what he had written.
That speaks volumes.
At that point the whistleblowing parties, if one might call them that, deferred, feeling perhaps that printing something like this on the web alone, even on a large and widely read site, would relegate it to something easily dismissible by the status quo. The Very Serious Players choose to read only properly vetted, fully credible and approved mainstream sources.
I am being a bit sarcastic, but not so much. The thought leaders and ruling class in the US are, alas, out of touch almost without regard to their origins. And one does not have to think too hard about it to discover why. They only read the right publications, watch the right shows, talk to the right people, say the right things, and think the right thoughts.
They live in virtual palaces and bubbles of ease and influence. To borrow a phrase from one of their less pliant pets, when they go out amongst the common people, it often resembles Prince Charles on a royal visit to Papua, New Guinea. As George Orwell noted in his diaries, 'apparently nothing will ever teach these people that the other 99% of the population exists.'
They exist, they just don't matter in the halls of power anymore.
I might have suggested some publishing options a little 'out of the box' like The Guardian or Der Spiegel. Choosing publications that might be less beholden to the New York financial powers seems as though it could be a more fruitful course of action. South China Morning Post, or even the Asia Times? Radio Free America?
So there you have it. We have a story. And the mainstream media refuses to publish it. And there is some wrangling about where and when it might achieve adequate exposure to do some good.
To: addresseesThank you all for writing me regarding Andrew Maguire's story of alleged "manipulation" in the silver market. As you may know, I was approached 11 months ago by a PR representative of Mr. Maguire's who wanted to introduce me to Andrew and to his attorney Gordon Schnell, at Constantine Cannon, in New York. I found what Andrew had to say very interesting, especially so in light of a piece I had written in the New York Times about the silver market three years ago. A Conspiracy With a Silver LiningI wrote up the story and submitted it to a national publication in the United States, which decided not to publish it. I then tried another, national financial publication, which also decided not to publish it. I then abandoned hope that the story would be published.About a month ago, Ned Naylor-Leyland contacted me and suggested that Zero Hedge might publish the story. I thought that would be a fine idea.Unfortunately, Mr. Schnell did not like the idea of Zero Hedge, nor apparently did his clients. They also declined to approve the use of key facts and key quotations that I felt needed to be included in the story to give it credibility. Part of my agreement with them was that they would be given quote approval and without their approval, I could not use their quotations or their information.They did not approve. At that point, without their cooperation, I did not feel the piece could be published. I explained that to Mr. Naylor-Leyland but he didn't seem much interested in those facts and then went on to encourage the publication of the piece to which you are all responding.All of which is to say, you are directing your passion to the wrong person. If you want the piece published, you need to reach out to Mr. Maguire and Mr. Schnell.Thank you for your interest and your passion on this topic.William D. Cohan
