Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quote Share via Email Print this Page [201-220] of 246 Media quotesMedia QuotesMedia Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes 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.~ C. P. Scott The bigger the information media, the less courage and information they allow. Bigness means weakness.~ Eric Sevareid 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.~ Adi Shankaracharya The things most people want to know about are usually none of their business.~ George Bernard Shaw 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.~ William Tecumseh Sherman The cold, hard facts of magazine publishing mean that those who advertise get editorial coverage.~ Richard Shortway The reduction of political discourse to sound bites is one of the worst things that’s happened in American political life.~ John Silber ... 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.~ Alan Simpson 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.~ New Sisyphus The attempt to silence a man is the greatest honour you can bestow on him. It means that you recognise his superiority to yourself.~ Joseph Sobran Hastiness and superficiality are the psychic diseases of the twentieth century, and more than anywhere else this disease is reflected in the press.~ Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn 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.~ Thomas Sowell Ego trips by coteries of self-exalting people are treated in the media as idealism, rather than the petty tyranny it is.~ Thomas Sowell The death of media influence has been greatly exaggerated.~ Thomas Sowell The talkers and writers resent being left on the sidelines by the doers.~ Thomas Sowell 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.~ Thomas Sowell 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.~ Albert Speer Print is dead... Get over it.~ John Squires Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.~ Gertrude Stein Newspaper editors separate the wheat from the chaff -- and print the chaff.~ Adlai E. Stevenson II Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print