Quotes About Press

Berman points out that this sort of thinking has led the Israelis to be frequently likened to the Nazis in the European press.

Freedom of the press, the surest guaranty of the rights of man.

When politicians tell lies, they know the press will call them out. They also know it doesn't matter. Politicians understand that reason will never have much of a role in voting decisions. A lie that makes a voter feel good is more effective than a hundred rational arguments. That's even true when the voter knows the lie is a lie.

The business model of the press manipulated our brains until our emotions overwhelmed whatever traces of rationality we started with.

It was as though in a community susceptible to alcoholism, the Russians placed liquor bottles on every doorstep, and the press, the public, and Donald Trump encouraged everyone to open the door.

Censorship has been my best press agent my whole life.

The worst part of my life is newspapers are still alive.

Now apparently I'm told that every celebrity is expected to honour the details of their private life with a press conference, a fragrance and a prime-time reality show.

I knew there would be a negative reaction in the press to my divorce, but I am not going to live my life because of something someone might say.

I was not afraid of the press or the militants. It was uncomfortable, but I was not afraid. With respect to the press, I knew I knew more than they knew about city matters. With respect to the militants, I understood it. I mean, everybody believed in those days that they were being screwed, you know, that somebody was getting ahead of them.

The truth is that while it appears to be forming the public opinion on fundamental matters, the press is often conforming to it.

Press and speech that deliberately trigger the hatred, and violation, fall not under the freedom of press and speech since as restrictions for morale and peace, apply to everyone without exemption.

To become the mirror, I criticise myself. I do not misuse and violate the freedom of speech and the press, but I am mostly out and overdosed. I cannot stop without gaming the system. The licence of the tongue and the pen gun is in my hands.

A free press is the greatest guarantee of a free society. We must keep it alive. We have to tolerate obnoxious opinions. But I don't want only opinions. I want facts.

Secondly, we have to learn that people must be informed. A free press is the greatest guarantee of a free society. We must keep it alive. We have to tolerate obnoxious opinions. But I don't want only opinions. I want facts.

When a person is receiving very little information, what he does receive makes a more powerful impression; a fact well appreciated by totalitarian regimes which control the Press.

The tenth Muse who now governs the periodical press.

Speakers for the Social Democratic party provided me with much food for thought. They attacked the whole capitalistic system, showed how its different units combined to exploit the producing masses to the nth degree, and how the distorted or suppressed news to protect this system, of which it was a part. Being loyal to the press, my first reaction to this denunciation was one of resentment, though I had to concede that some of the charges were true.

I won't do press anymore unless I can talk about the homophobia and let queer people know our ideas are mainstream.

I like chatting with people. If people ask me a direct question, I give them a direct answer and I feel I've always done that with the press.

A free press is the cornerstone of democracy; there is no question about that.

When journalists forget that our job is to question and annoy those in power, there can be huge consequences.

The really interesting moment will be when you have a critical mass of people engaging through the networks, more than through the press and TV. When that happens, the culture of politics has to change, moving away from controlled one-way messages towards a political culture that is more questioning.

I can't deal with the press; I hate all those Beatles questions.