Quotes About Press

At some point we cannot escape naming responsibility. It's in our nature. Sometimes I think we are all like that myopic coiner at his press, taking the blind slugs one by one from the tray, all of us bent so jealously at our work, determined that not even chaos be outside of our own making.

King never confined himself to being solely the leader of black America—even though the white press attempted to do so.

I don't know anything about press conferences." "Oh, just google it. I'm sure someone's written an article on holding a successful one. I mean, if the President can manage it, I'm sure you can. He looks like he can barely tie his shoes without help.

Trump may not have been doing anything illegal at the Mayflower, but the Russians were there and in a position to expose him. That was kompromat. That was how it worked. The press covered the event as something that was completely normal. In fact, nothing illegal was taking place. Nevertheless, Russian intelligence had essentially hijacked Trump's foreign policy in plain sight and nobody noticed.

The press of my foot to the earth springs a hundred affections, They scorn the best I can do to relate them.

When indeed you positively press your face, so to speak, against the crystalline window of your eyes, your mind is apt to become a perfect vacuum. (Out Of The Deep)

James was the first great fighter for an independent press in America, and he was the most important journalistic influence on his younger brother. He

Failing conventionally is the route to go; as a group, lemmings may have a rotten image, but no individual lemming has ever received bad press

Without prior notice to the other powers or even to the State Department officials concerned with the consortium, Wilson proceeded to inform the press that the American group in the consortium would no longer have the support of the government.

When I was a little boy I used to borrow my father's hat, and make a press card to stick in the hat band. That was the way reporters were always portrayed in the movies.

The entry of a hero on the public scene goes unnoticed," the great A. J. Liebling wrote in The Earl of Louisiana, "but his rentrée always has an eager press.

Without freedom of the press, there can be no representative government.

The primary office of a newspaper is the gathering of news… comment is free, but facts are sacred.

We must eliminate all newspapers; we cannot make a revolution with free press. Newspapers are instruments of the oligarchy.

That had always been the way of the world: Those with intelligence pressed into service by those serving the priests and generals unless the priests and generals were suspicious, at which time, those with well-trained intelligence had to flee for safety.

The printing press is the mother of errors.

The difference between a bandit and a patriot is a good press agent.

Censorship places us all in subjection, just as under despotism we are all equal … that kind of freedom of the press acts to introduce oligarchy into questions of the spirit. … That [kind of] freedom of the press pushes presumptuousness to the point of forestalling world history, substituting itself for the voice of the people. …

But the censorship itself admits that it is not an end in itself, that it is not a good in and of itself, that it is therefore based on the principle that "the end sanctifies the means." But an end that needs unholy means is not a holy end.81 Besides, Marx argues, the maxim always works both ways as a justification: if the censorship can plead the goodness of its ends as justification for what it does, then so can the (antigovernmental) press.

Southern newspapers hungry for fodder to roil the secession debate fed their subscribers the most inciteful material they could unearth in the Northern press. Northern journals scoured Southern papers for similarly provocative reports designed to confirm hotheaded Southern disloyalty.

The mid-19th century was noted for a partisan, rather than a consensus press, but this partisanship was able to turn out voters consistently.

Most of the press is in league with government, or with the status quo.

If you don't have this freedom of the press, then all these little fellows are weaseling around and doing their monkey business and they never get caught.

The press is hostile to the idea of liberty. Most people in the press are for big government. Most people think that the solution to anything, whether it's health care problems, education, whatever it is -- it's got to be more government.