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Quotes About Press

Freedom of teaching and of opinion in book or press is the foundation for the sound and natural development of any people.
~ Albert Einstein
Certainly no man could be such an irredeemable 'schlub' as the American press portrays its losers.
~ Richard Ben Cramer
Freedom of the press without responsibility is madness.
~ Eddie Rabbitt
A lot of gay-themed films are terrible. And mainstream audiences and the press aren't interested, understandably.
~ Andrew Haigh
Contrary to what a lot of people think, I don't enjoy doing press. I've been asked the same questions a million times now, and I don't particularly like talking about my personal life.
~ Donald J. Trump
One thing I've learned about the press is that they're always hungry for a good story, and the more sensational the better. It's in the nature of the job, and I understand that. The point is that if you are a little different, or a little outrageous
~ Donald J. Trump
And you had people - and I'm not talking about the neo-Nazis and the white nationalists - because they should be condemned totally. But you had many people in that group other than neo-Nazis and white nationalists. Okay? And the press has treated them absolutely unfairly.
~ Donald J. Trump
The point is that if you are a little different, or a little outrageous, or if you do things that are bold or controversial, the press is going to write about you.
~ Donald Trump
He totally underestimated the press reaction. First, the press thrives on confrontation. They also love stories about extremes, whether they're great successes or terrible failures. This story had it all. Perhaps most important, many reporters tend to see themselves as consumer advocates. Almost nothing gets them as outraged as a boondoggle that victimizes average citizens. The city's fiasco at the Wollman Rink was an absolute classic.
~ Donald Trump
Not for the first time in his career, Brunetti reflected upon the possible advantage of censorship of the press.
~ Donna Leon
Brunetti had once come across the term 'compassion fatigue', but thought that the oh-so-clever press had got it wrong, and the term should really be, 'horror fatigue'.
~ Donna Leon
Well, her funeral is over, I hope, and her hymn sung; and our ears shan't be tortured with that discord and jargon. It has made me nervous. Sit down here, beside me; sit close; hold my hand; press it hard-hard-harder.
~ Unknown
That's why I refused. But after the media
~ J.A. Konrath
I have no desire to make an idol of holiness. I do not wish to dethrone Christ, and put holiness in His place. But I must candidly say, I wish sanctification was more thought of in this day than it seems to be, and I therefore take occasion to press the subject on all believers into whose hands these pages may fall.
~ J.C. Ryle
power of a free press. Its power was amplified when everyone had a voice. Theories without a foundation in facts or basis in reality could take flight and go viral. No barriers to entry. No editors. No fact checking, or if there was, it couldn't be trusted; "fact checkers" had biases and agendas, too, after all. The loudest voices dominated the chaos that was social media hysteria, and all of
~ Unknown
power of a free press. Its power was amplified when everyone had a voice. Theories without a foundation in facts or basis in reality could take flight and go viral. No barriers to entry. No editors. No fact checking, or if there was, it couldn't be trusted; "fact checkers" had biases and agendas, too, after all. The loudest voices dominated the chaos that was social media hysteria, and all of it contributed to the chaos. Suppression and censorship only fueled the flames.
~ Unknown
the power of a free press. Its power was amplified when everyone had a voice. Theories without a foundation in facts or basis in reality could take flight and go viral. No barriers to entry. No editors. No fact checking, or if there was, it couldn't be trusted; "fact checkers" had biases and agendas, too, after all. The loudest voices dominated the chaos that was social media hysteria, and all of it contributed to the chaos. Suppression and censorship only fueled the flames.
~ Unknown
Our most tragic error may have been our inability to establish a rapport and a confidence with the press and television with the communication media. I don't think the press has understood me.
~ Lyndon B. Johnson
The products of the vine and olive tree played a great part in Mediterranean life. The first squeeze of the olive press gave oil fit for food, the second for ointment, the third for illumination, and what was left could be burned as fuel.
~ Unknown
written by reporters on the scene?
~ Unknown
In the ensuing debate Madison declared that "opinions are not the objects of legislation," and he worried aloud, "How far will this go? It may extend to the liberty of speech and of the press." Finally,
~ Lynne Cheney
Yet here the pilots were in England, fêted and pampered by the upper echelons of society, glamorized in movies and the press, enjoying themselves in spite of any guilt they may have felt. And here were their hosts and hostesses, with their very British insouciance, acting as if there would always be an England. In one context, this attitude was infuriating; in another, it was one of Britain's greatest strengths.
~ Unknown
The grieving Lindberghs were convinced that the excesses of the press were responsible for their son's abduction and murder. "If it were not for the publicity that surrounds us, we might still have him," Anne bitterly wrote in her diary.
~ Unknown
ENIAC was completed. The machine was demonstrated for a suitably awed press corps on Valentine's Day, February 14, 1946. And it worked just as Eckert and Mauchly had advertised, adding up thousands of multidigit numbers before the reporters could even blink.
~ Unknown