Quotes About Press

I do not speak very often to the press. I just have it in my head. I do my talking out there on the field, which is the most important thing.

But the Nixon Administration gave the press an identity of its own, separate from the public interest, and then began to characterize the press either as friendly or hostile or what have you.

Cassie Mackin was the first, if not the only, member of the press to point out that the emperor had no clothes. She opened her report by observing that "the Nixon campaign is, for the most part, a series of speeches before closed audiences, invited guests only.

In fact, you could effectively say that Richard Nixon has abolished the Presidential press conference as an institution. He may grant two or three a year, but when they're that infrequent they don't really mean anything.

Bernard: ... By the way, Valentina, do you want credit? - 'the game book recently discovered by.'? Valentine: It was never lost, Bernard. Bernard: 'As recently pointed out by.' I don't normally like giving credit where it's due, but with scholarly articles as with divorce, there is a certain cachet in citing a member of the aristocracy. I'll pop it in ad lib for the lecture, and give you a mention in the press release. How's that? Valentine: Very kind.

I suspect that a nonracist, nonsexist, educating press is as profitable as one that is not. I suspect that clarification of difficult issues is just as entertaining as obscuring and reducing them is. But it will take more than an effort of the will to make such a press profitable; it will take imagination, invention, and a strong sense of responsibility and accountability.

We glean what is public primarily, but not exclusively, from media.

There is no way to answer the systemic distortions of the press.

there is something the press can do in language that a society cannot do. You've done it before. Move us closer to participatory democracy; help us distinguish between a pseudo-experience and a living one, between an encounter and an engagement, between theme and life. Help us all try to figure out what it means to be human in the twenty-first century.

Miss Vernon is in shock and unable to talk to the press.

Ambassador Garak is having a field day with the press at my expense, and while that just means it's probably Tuesday again, it never does much for my mood.

How can you tell when a presidential scandal is serious? A. The president's poll numbers drop. B. The press goes after him. C. The opposition calls for his impeachment. D. His own party members turn on him. E. Or the White House says, "Mistakes were made." —Bill Schneider, CNN's Inside Politics

The freedom of the press is one of the greatest bulwarks of liberty, and can never be restrained but by despotic governments.

The mountain is your mother," Stonesnake had told him during an easier climb a few days past. "Cling to her, press yourself against her teats, and she won't drop you.

A imprensa argentina continuou a ridicularizar o Paraguai, e nenhuma ação foi tomada depois da chegada das notícias a respeito da ocupação das cidades Orientais pelos brasileiros, e falou-se que o Paraguai não iria sair do seu casulo.

Freedom of the press in Britain is freedom to print such of the proprietor's prejudices as the advertisers don't object to.

Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers or newspapers without government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter.

Every editor of newspapers pays tribute to the devil.

Now that all the members of the press are so delighted I lost, I'd like to make a statement. As I leave you I want you to know -just think how much you'll be missing. You won't have Nixon to kick around anymore because, gentlemen, this is my last press conference.

Freedom of conscience, of education, of speech, of assembly are among the very fundamentals of democracy and all of them would be nullified should freedom of the press ever be successfully challenged.

tipped down. She slipped her right hand in her pocket, pressed the buzzer with her left. Nadine, she thought

The press of the United States? It is a parasitic growth that battens on the capitalist class. Its function is to serve the established by moulding public opinion, and right well it serves it.

Twitter is just like posting old-fashioned press releases, and it can be very effective in promoting your business interests and charity work.

I started getting Twitter followers after I started doing press for 'Fargo.' One of my best friends from college is a librarian, and she started tracking after each interview how many Twitter followers I got. She and her librarian friends were like, 'We're going to make a graph.' And I was like, 'Alright, nerds.'