Liberty Quotes - Daily Email History

"Our job is to give people not what they want,
but what we decide they ought to have."

~ Richard Salant  

"Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile. In protest, I declined election to the National Institute of Arts and Letters some years ago, and now I must decline the Pulitzer Prize."

~ Sinclair Lewis  

"We do nothing controversial.
We're not in the investigative business.
Our only concern is giving editorial support for our ad projects."

~ Houston Chronicle  

"News reporters are certainly liberal and left of center."

~ Walter Cronkite  

"The news media in general are liberals."

~ Barbara Walters  

"The New York Times is deliberately
pitched to the liberal point of view."

~ Herman Dismore  

"In relation to the political decontamination of our public life, the government will embark upon a systematic campaign to restore the nation’s moral and material health. The whole educational system, theater, film, literature, the press and broadcasting -- all these will be used as a means to this end."

~ Adolf Hitler  

~ Albert Speer  

"I think the subject which will be of most importance politically is
Mass Psychology. ...It's importance has been enormously increased by
the growth of modern methods of propaganda ...Although this science
will be diligently studied, it will be rigidly confined to the
governing class. The populace will not be allowed to know how
its convictions were generated."

~ Bertrand Russell  

"There is no such thing, at this date of the world's history, in
America as an independent press. You know it and I know it.

There is not one of you who dares to write your honest opinions,
and if you did, you know beforehand that it would never appear in
print. I am paid weekly for keeping my honest opinions out of the
paper I am connected with. Others of you are paid similar salaries
for similar things, and any of you who would be so foolish as to
write honest opinions would be out on the streets looking for another
job. If I allowed my honest opinions to appear in one issue of my
paper, before twenty-four hours my occupation would be gone.

The business of the journalists is to destroy the truth;
to lie outright;
to pervert;
to vilify;
to fawn at the feet of mammon, and
to sell his country and his race for his daily bread.

You know it and I know it and what folly is this toasting an
independent press? We are the tools and vassals of rich men behind
the scenes. We are jumping jacks, they pull the strings and we
dance. Our talents, our possibilities and our lives are all the
property of other men. We are intellectual prostitutes."

~ John Swinton  

"A newspaper has three things to do.
One is to amuse, another is to entertain
and the rest is to mislead."

~ Ernest Bevin  

"No mighty king, no ambitious emperor, no pope, or prophet ever dreamt
of such an awesome pulpit, so potent a magic wand [television]."

~ Fred W. Friendly  

"Journalism is popular, but it is popular mainly as fiction.
Life is one world, and life seen in the newspapers is another."

~ Gilbert Keith Chesterton