Quotes About Press

The First Amendment protects the news media and the news media knows how to use it. Donald Trump doesn't understand it, he's never going to understand it.

As a presidential candidate, Mr. Trump is going to get tough questions from the press and has to answer them.

The press is the hired agent of a monied system, and set up for no other purpose than to tell lies where their interests are involved. One can trust nobody and nothing.

PBS was not a left-wing ideology. I mean, Air America was, but PBS was not. But anybody who tells the truth is now branded and marginalized. The devolution of the American press began in 1986 when Ronald Reagan abolished the fairness doctrine.

The press aren't willing to wait for whatever the truth is - the truth never catches up with the lie... Destroying people ought not to be a competitive business.

So now 20 years later people want us to get together so they can take shots at all these old babes trying to get back some youth. I mean come on; I've been there. I know what the press would do.

As far as the press is concerned, they're going to say what they want to say. Probably about 10-15 percent of the time It's accurate.

News, news, news - that is what we want. You cannot beat news in a newspaper.

In Britain, the press want to kill a show by revealing what's coming up and spoiling the pleasure.

The media coverage for Donald Trump has been almost cheerleading over the last couple weeks. And I'm convinced it's because many in the press want him to be the nominee.

In the press this week, NBC has been calling me every name in the book. In fact, they think I'm such an idiot they now want me to run the network.

When asked for your views, by the press or others, remember that what they really want to know is the President's views.

In many cases, the very, very dishonest press doesn't want to report [terrorists attacks].They have their reasons, and you understand that.

Language was war, vaster than any host of swords, spears and sorcery. The self waging battle against everyone else. Borders enacted, defended, sallies and breaches, fields of corpses rotting like tumbled fruit. Words ever seeking allies, ever seeking iconic verisimilitude in the heaving press.

All Americans value the freedom of speech and the freedom of the press, and I believe this is essential for our continued way of life. But with this freedom comes responsibility. That responsibility has been abdicated here by some in the media and some in the government.

Il giornalismo è l'arte di arrivare troppo tardi il più in fretta possibile.

I am asked to speak upon "The Moral Leadership of the Religious Press." For one who has for fifty years been ridiculed by both press and pulpit, denounced as infidel by both, it is, to say the least, very funny. Nevertheless I am glad to stand here today as an object lesson of the survival of the fittest, from ridicule and contempt.

Freedom of the press underpins free societies around the world.

No one needs to tell me about the importance of the free press in a democratic society or about the essential role a newspaper can play in its community.

The paramedic called the press and sold me like a loaf of bread. This was news, and he wanted to be the one to report it.

Since he sold his team, Eddie Jordan has had nothing to do with F1 except for what he says in the press!

Contemporary bands often will do tour-only releases pressed and sold only in Australia. Crikey!

While we all respect the solemn responsibility of our law enforcement officers to protect the public, we must also safeguard the rights of Missourians to peaceably assemble and the rights of the press to report on matters of public concern.

The most effective check and balance on government has been an independent press which maintains its credibility by ensuring that its criticism is balanced and based on fact - based indeed on solid journalistic work.