Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quote Share via Email Print this Page [21-40] of 246 Media quotesMedia QuotesMedia Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes Perhaps the most obvious political effect of controlled news is the advantage it gives powerful people in getting their issues on the political agenda and defining those issues in ways likely to influence their resolution.~ W. Lance Bennett A newspaper has three things to do. One is to amuse, another is to entertain and the rest is to mislead.~ Ernest Bevin What ISN'T in the news is often more important than what IS.~ Ed Biersmith The trouble with most folks isn't so much their ignorance, as knowing so many things that ain't so.~ Josh Billings I am for the First Amendment from the first word to the last. I believe it means what it says.~ Justice Hugo L. Black I can’t think of anything that would do more toward putting us back on the road to liberty and personal responsibility than for the average American, and for the news media, to come to the understanding that we are not a democracy, nor were we supposed to be.~ Neal Boortz Only the suppressed word is dangerous.~ Ludwig Börne And it could be that while unemployment and the economy worsens, [President Trump] could have undermined the messaging so much that he can actually control what people think. And that, that is our job.~ Mika Brezinski The one function that TV news performs very well is that when there is no news we give it to you with the same emphasis as if there were.~ David Brinkley The pen is mightier than the sword.~ Edward Bulwer-Lytton There are many prices we pay for freedoms secured by the First Amendment; the risk of undue influence is one of them, confirming what we have long known: Freedom is hazardous, but some restraints are worse.~ Justice Warren E. Burger We must not always judge of the generality of the opinion by the noise of the acclamation.~ Edmund Burke It is a general popular error to suppose the loudest complainers for the public to be the most anxious for its welfare.~ Edmund Burke There are three estates in Parliament but in the Reporters' Gallery yonder there sits a Fourth Estate more important far than they all. It is not a figure of speech or witty saying, it is a literal fact, very momentous to us in these times.~ Edmund Burke You know what's interesting about Washington? It's the kind of place where second-guessing has become second nature.~ George Herbert Walker Bush Let us never tolerate outrageous conspiracy theories concerning the attacks of September the 11th; malicious lies that attempt to shift the blame away from the terrorists, themselves, away from the guilty.~ George W. Bush The most important service rendered by the press and the magazines is that of educating people to approach printed matter with distrust.~ Samuel Butler I regret to say it, but we are gradually turning over the business of Congress, turning over all our constitutional rights, turning over our powers delegated by the people to a lot of editors, theorists, and college professors who are not capable of conducting our affairs and to whom we should not abdicate.~ Oscar Callaway In March, 1915, the J.P. Morgan interests, the steel, shipbuilding, and powder interest, and their subsidiary organizations, got together 12 men high up in the newspaper world and employed them to select the most influential newspapers in the United States and sufficient number of them to control generally the policy of the daily press. … They found it was only necessary to purchase the control of 25 of the greatest papers. An agreement was reached; the policy of the papers was bought, to be paid for by the month; an editor was furnished for each paper to properly supervise and edit information regarding the questions of preparedness, militarism, financial policies, and other things of national and international nature considered vital to the interests of the purchasers.~ Oscar Callaway After listening to the recordings containing the remarks made by on-air personalities on 10 and 27 September and 8 October and reading the stenographic notes, the Commission identified several remarks about the complainant related to her physical attributes, and sexual attributes in particular. There are multiple references to the size of her breasts; [translation] 'her incredible set of boobs' ... The Commission considers that the remarks made about Ms. Chiasson were abusive and tended to expose her, and women in general, to contempt on the basis of sex, in contravention of section 3(b) of the Regulations. Further, the remarks do not meet the objectives of the broadcasting policy for Canada set out in the Act. The remarks did not meet the objective of high standard of programming required by section 3(1)(g) of the Act.~ Canadian Radio-Television and Telecommunications Commission Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print