Quotes About Media

The press is ferocious. It forgives nothing, it only hunts for mistakes . . . In my position anyone sane would have left a long time ago.

Freedom of the press is not just important to democracy, it is democracy.

Free speech is meaningless if the commercial cacophony has risen to the point where no one can hear you.

There are laws to protect the freedom of the press's speech, but none that are worth anything to protect the people from the press

Absolute freedom of the press to discuss public questions is a foundation stone of American liberty.

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

I get a little nauseated, perhaps, when I hear the phrase 'freedom of the press' used as freely as it is, knowing that a large part of our proprietorial press is not free at all.

The bigger the information media, the less courage and freedom they follow. Bigness means weakness.

A newspaper is a device for making the ignorant more ignorant and the crazy crazier.

The liberty of the press is not confined to newspapers and periodicals. It necessarily embraces pamphlets and leaflets.

We think we have got freedom of the press. When one millionaire has ten newspapers and ten million people have no newspapers - that is not freedom of the press.

Freedom of the press is a precious privilege that no country can forego.

Now, more than ever, the Internet must be wielded along with other media to cast bright lights on all who would destroy freedom in the world.

Populists have never had a good press in Freedom's land.

A nice, easy place for freedom of speech to be eroded is comics, because comics are a natural target whenever an election comes up.

I take a grave view of the press. It is the weak slat under the bed of democracy

I try to give the media as many confusing images as I can to retain my freedom. What's real is for my children and the people I live with.

We need a free media, not just freedom of speech.

Limiting the freedom of news 'just a little bit' is in the same category with the classic example 'a little bit pregnant.

All the wrong people have the power of suggestion and the freedom of the press is meaningless if nobody asks a question.

The show is a satire, which gives us freedom to do anything we want. Satire is the magic word that wipes away any culpability. The media is jealous of this freedom.

Those who write the editorials and those who write the columns, they simply are unaccountable. They're free to impose their cultural politics in the name of freedom of the press.

The First Amendment is not a blanket freedom-of-information act. The constitutional newsgathering freedom means the media can go where the public can, but enjoys no superior right of access.

A functional media is as important to democratic freedom as voting.