The newspaper is of necessity something of a monopoly, and its first duty is to shun the temptations of monopoly. Its primary office is the gathering of news. At the peril of its soul it must see that the supply is not tainted. Neither in what it gives, nor in what it does not give, nor in the mode of presentation, must the unclouded face of truth suffer wrong. Comment is free but facts are sacred.
more C. P. Scott quotes
The bigger the information media, the less courage and information they allow. Bigness means weakness.
more Eric Sevareid quotes
Loud speech, profusion of words, and possessing skillfulness in expounding scriptures are merely for the enjoyment of the learned. They do not lead to liberation.
more Adi Shankaracharya quotes
The things most people want to know about are usually none of their business.
more George Bernard Shaw quotes
I hate newspapermen. They come into camp and pick up their camp rumors and print them as facts. I regard them as spies, which, in truth, they are. If I killed them all there would be news from Hell before breakfast.
more William Tecumseh Sherman quotes
The cold, hard facts of magazine publishing mean that those who advertise get editorial coverage.
more Richard Shortway quotes
The reduction of political discourse to sound bites is one of the worst things that’s happened in American political life.
more John Silber quotes
... good people doing good things. But let me tell you, you'll never find it if you just follow the Washington media. You'll never know the good. All you get is controversy, crap and confusion.
more Alan Simpson quotes
The New York Times, CBS and the BBC all had to fire lead personnel over the fact that they just damn well made stuff up out of whole cloth in service to an obviously partisan political agenda.
more New Sisyphus quotes
The attempt to silence a man is the greatest honour you can bestow on him. It means that you recognise his superiority to yourself.
more Joseph Sobran quotes
Hastiness and superficiality are the psychic diseases of the twentieth century, and more than anywhere else this disease is reflected in the press.
more Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn quotes
The next time somebody in the media denies that there is media bias, ask how they explain the fact that there are at least a hundred stories about the shrinking arctic ice cap for every one about the expanding antarctic ice cap, which has now grown to record size.
more Thomas Sowell quotes
Ego trips by coteries of self-exalting people are treated in the media as idealism, rather than the petty tyranny it is.
more Thomas Sowell quotes
The death of media influence has been greatly exaggerated.
more Thomas Sowell quotes
The talkers and writers resent being left on the sidelines by the doers.
more Thomas Sowell quotes
With all the pious talk about "tolerance" in the media and in academia, there is virtually none for those who challenge the dogmas of political correctness in most of our colleges and universities.
more Thomas Sowell quotes
Hitler’s dictatorship differed in one fundamental point from all its predecessors in history. It was the first dictatorship in the present period of modern technical development, a dictatorship which made complete use of all technical means for the domination of its own country. Through technical devices like the radio and the loud-speaker, eighty million people were deprived of independent thought. It was thereby possible to subject them to the will of one man.
more Albert Speer quotes
Print is dead... Get over it.
more John Squires quotes
Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.
more Gertrude Stein quotes
Newspaper editors separate the wheat from the chaff -- and print the chaff.
more Adlai E. Stevenson II quotes
The first principle of a free society is an untrammeled flow of words in an open forum.
more Adlai E. Stevenson II quotes
Censorship reflects a society's lack of confidence in itself. It is a hallmark of an authoritarian regime.
more Justice Potter Stewart quotes
The media. It sounds like a convention of spiritualists.
more Tom Stoppard quotes
Private opinion is weak, but public opinion is almost omnipotent.
more Harriet Beecher Stowe quotes
The literature of a people must so ring from the sense of its nationality; and nationality is impossible without self-respect, and self-respect is impossible without liberty.
more Harriet Beecher Stowe quotes
There is no such thing ... in America as an independent press.
more John Swinton quotes
The first duty of a newspaper is to be accurate. If it is accurate, it follows that it is fair.
more Herbert B. Swope quotes
The Illinois eavesdropping statute restricts a medium of expression commonly used for the preservation and communication of information and ideas, thus triggering First Amendment scrutiny. Illinois has criminalized the nonconsensual recording of most any oral communication, including recordings of public officials doing the public’s business in public and regardless of whether the recording is open or surreptitious. Defending the broad sweep of this statute, the State’s Attorney relies on the government’s interest in protecting conversational privacy, but that interest is not implicated when police officers are performing their duties in public places and engaging in public communications audible to persons who witness the events. Even under the more lenient intermediate standard of scrutiny applicable to content-neutral burdens on speech, this application of the statute very likely flunks. The Illinois eavesdropping statute restricts far more speech than necessary to protect legitimate privacy interests; as applied to the facts alleged here, it likely violates the First Amendment’s free-speech and free-press guarantees.
more Judge Diane Schwerm Sykes quotes
The American people will never knowingly adopt Socialism. But under the name of 'liberalism' they will adopt every fragment of the Socialist program, until one day America will be a Socialist nation, without knowing how it happened.
more Norman Thomas quotes
Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.
more Henry David Thoreau quotes
If you cannot convince them, confuse them.
more Harry S. Truman quotes
Censorship is telling a man he can't have a steak just because a baby can't chew it.
more Mark Twain quotes
If you don't read the newspaper you are uninformed; if you do read the newspaper you are misinformed.
more Mark Twain quotes
I am aware that when even the brightest mind in our world has been trained up from childhood in a superstition of any kind, it will never be possible for that mind, in its maturity, to examine sincerely, dispassionately, and conscientiously any evidence or any circumstance which shall seem to cast a doubt upon the validity of that superstition... (more)
more Mark Twain quotes
According to the Taranto Principle, the press's failure to hold left-wingers accountable for bad behavior merely encourages the left's bad behavior to the point that its candidates are repellent to ordinary Americans.
more R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. quotes
Everyone has the right…to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media regardless of frontiers.
more United Nations quotes
The media can now wistfully reflect on their glory days of the 1970's when the majority of people actually bought into their bullshit.
more Laura K. Van Onymous quotes
When you control opinion, as corporate America controls opinion in the United States by owning the media, you can make the [many] believe almost anything you want, and you can guide them.
more Gore Vidal quotes
The corporate grip on opinion in the United States is one of the wonders of the Western world. No First World country has ever managed to eliminate so entirely from its media all objectivity -- much less dissent.
more Gore Vidal quotes
It is the characteristic of the most stringent censorships, that they give credibility to the opinions they attack.
more Voltaire quotes
We have a natural right to make use of our pens as of our tongue, at our peril, risk and hazard.
more Voltaire quotes
The secret of being tiresome is to tell everything.
more Voltaire quotes
The news media in general are liberals.
more Barbara Walters quotes
Newspapers have degenerated. They may now be absolutely relied upon.
more Oscar Wilde quotes
You cannot hope to bribe or twist (thank God!) the British journalist. But, seeing what the man will do unbribed, there's no occasion to.
more Humbert Wolfe quotes
I wouldn't call it fascism exactly, but a political system nominally controlled by an irresponsible, dumbed down electorate who are manipulated by dishonest, cynical, controlled mass media that dispense the propaganda of a corrupt political establishment can hardly be described as democracy either.
more Edward Zehr quotes
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