Quotes About Media

I'm tired of being lied to by government, by the media, and by every corporation I have anything to do with.

Government without a tough and vibrant media is not an option for the United States of America.

The safest way to ensure diversity of opinion is diverse ownership. But this ideal has been sacrificed by our government.

During a recent panel on the numerous failures of American journalism, I proposed that almost all stories about government should begin: "Look out! They're about to smack you around again!

For those who govern, the first thing required is indifference to newspapers.

Television of course actually started in Britain in 1936, and it was a monopoly, and there was only one broadcaster and it operated on a license which is not the same as a government grant.

I think the media has been in denial just like the party regulars have been in denial. They just don't understand that the government that we have today is not what the people want as a government.

Journalists are supposed to be skeptical, that's what keeps them digging rather than simply accepting the official line, whether it comes from government or corporate bureaucrats.

If ever there was an area in which to do the exact opposite of that which government and the media urge you to do, that area is the purchasing of gold.

Advertisers, not governments, are the primary censors of media content in the United States today.

It was a struggle financing CNN, but I did it without ever asking the government for a nickel.

The left controls the media, the institutions of higher learning and the government. They preach against business, disparate merit, decry free enterprise and slander capitalism.

The media I've had a lot to do with is lazy. We fed them and they ate it every day.

[I]f you want instant, reflexive support for the US government's police and military powers, MSNBC is the place to turn these days.

Normally, the opposition gets more media space and even the people find it interesting to listen to voices against the government of the day.

I ask the Philippines Government to put an end to journalists' killings by giving journalists' safety the priority it deserves.

I think people are tuning out the political class, tuning out the national media, and the American people are just gonna - we're just gonna demand government as good as our people again.

No honest journalist should be willing to describe himself or herseif as 'embedded.' To say, 'I'm an embedded journalist' is to say, 'I'm a government Propagandist.

They say it's the responsibility of the media to look at government - especially the President - with a microscope. I don't argue with that, but when they use a proctoscope, it's going too far.

The fact is that in a way, journalists become a kind of default in the system when you don't have substantive two-party back-and-forth inside of the government.

Barack Obama is not only going to reside in Washington and be on call, essentially, with the Drive-By Media, he's setting up what essentially is going to be a shadow government.

People don't trust government, they don't trust Wall Street, they don't trust the church, they don't trust the media.

I'm interested to see what happens with Fox News and phone hacking. I really can't believe it just happens in Great Britain. Because really, who cares about just hacking phones over there?

Television could perform a great service in mass education, but there's no indication its sponsors have anything like this on their minds.