Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quote Share via Email Print this Page [121-140] of 246 Media quotesMedia QuotesMedia Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes To preserve the freedom of the human mind then and freedom of the press, every spirit should be ready to devote itself to martyrdom.~ Thomas Jefferson Dividing the political positions into liberal versus conservative is itself a leading example of [an old conceptual framework that organizes the world into categories and stereotypes] shared by journalists and media activists alike. As a result, it has taken decades for libertarians in the United States to break through this conventional view of the political spectrum and gain recognition as a distinct point of view. Over and above any hostility journalists had to free-market views, there was no conceptual space within their conventional wisdom for a political philosophy that combined free markets and free minds.~ David Kelley It is hard to fight an enemy who has outposts in your head.~ Sally Kempton Popular revolt against a ruthless, experienced modern dictatorship, which enjoys a monopoly over weapons and communications, ... is simply not a possibility in the modern age.~ George F. Kennan People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid.~ Soren Kierkegaard Everything you read in the press is absolutely true. Except the rare event of which you have personal knowledge.~ Erwin Knoll There's a standard formula for success in the entertainment medium, and that is: "Beat it to death if it succeeds." ~ Ernie Kovacs Framing is a process whereby communicators, consciously or unconsciously, act to construct a point of view that encourages the facts of a given situation to be interpreted by others in a particular manner.~ Jim Kuypers The masses have never thirsted after truth. They turn aside from evidence that is not to their taste, preferring to deify error, if error seduce them. Whoever can supply them with illusions is easily their master; whoever attempts to destroy their illusions is always their victim.~ Gustave Le Bon I practice journalism in accordance with the following guidelines: • Do nothing I cannot defend. • Do not distort, lie, slant or hype. • Do not falsify facts or make up quotes. • Cover, write and present every story with the care I would want if the story were about me. • Assume there is at least one other side or version to every story. • Assume the viewer is as smart and caring and good a person as I am. • Assume the same about all people on whom I report. • Assume everyone is innocent until proven guilty. • Assume personal lives are a private matter until a legitimate turn in the story mandates otherwise. • Carefully separate opinion and analysis from straight news stories and clearly label it as such. • Do not use anonymous sources or blind quotes except on rare and monumental occasions. No one should ever be allowed to attack another anonymously. • Do not broadcast profanity or the end result of violence unless it is an integral and necessary part of the story and/or crucial to its understanding. • Acknowledge that objectivity may be impossible but fairness never is. • Journalists who are reckless with facts and reputations should be disciplined by their employers. • My viewers have a right to know what principles guide my work and the process I use in their practice. • I am not in the entertainment business. ~ Jim Lehrer The Seven Deadly Sins of the Press: - Concentrated Power of the Big Press. - Passing of competition and the coming of monopoly. - Governmental control of the press. - Timidity, especially in the face of group and corporate pressures. - Big Business mentality. - Clannishness among the newspaper publishers that has prevented them from criticizing each other. - Social blindness.~ Max Lerner Political correctness is the natural continuum from the party line. What we are seeing once again is a self-appointed group of vigilantes imposing their views on others.~ Doris Lessing The burning of an author’s books, imprisonment for opinion’s sake, has always been the tribute that an ignorant age pays to the genius of its time.~ Joseph Lewis 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 People everywhere confuse, What they read in newspapers with news.~ A. J. Liebling Freedom of the press is guaranteed only to those who own one.~ A. J. Liebling Public sentiment is everything. With public sentiment nothing can fail. Without it nothing can succeed. He who molds opinion is greater than he who enacts laws.~ Abraham Lincoln What chance of survival does a culture have when its own elites actively seek its destruction?~ William S. Lind A radical is one who speaks the truth.~ Charles A. Lindbergh, Sr. Gathering information about government officials in a form that can readily be disseminated to others serves a cardinal First Amendment interest in protecting and promoting ‘the free discussion of governmental affairs.’ ~ Judge Kermit Victor Lipez Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print