Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quote Share via Email Print this Page [141-160] of 246 Media quotesMedia QuotesMedia Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes A free press is not a privilege but an organic necessity in a great society.~ Walter Lippmann Never — and I mean never — blindly trust the statistics you read [or hear] about the economy.~ Don Luskin Whenever the media covers anything I know about in intimate detail ... they always get it wrong. True on the left, and true on the right. Sigh. Double sigh.~ Don Luskin We welcome almost any break in the monotony of things, a man has only to murder a series of wives in a new way to become known to millions of people who have never heard of Homer.~ Robert Wilson Lynd One who deceives will always find those who allow themselves to be deceived.~ Niccolo Machiavelli The right of freely examining public characters and measures, and of free communication among the people thereon … has ever been justly deemed the only effectual guardian of every other right.~ James Madison It is impossible for ideas to compete in the marketplace if no forum for their presentation is provided or available.~ Thomas Mann There is danger in the concentration of control in the television and radio networks, especially in the large television and radio stations; danger in the concentration of ownership in the press…and danger in the increasing concentration of selection by book publishers and reviewers and by the producers of radio and television programs.~ Eugene McCarthy The notion that journalism can regularly produce a product that violates the fundamental interests of media owners and advertisers … is absurd.~ Robert McChesney Former ABC News reporter/anchor Sam Donaldson is ready to say the last rites for network news because it will soon lose its dominant position as Americans' primary source of news. 'I think it's dead. Sorry,' he said during a breakfast panel Tuesday at the National Association of Broadcasters' convention in Las Vegas.~ Bill McConnell In May 1998, [Los Angeles Times publisher Mark] Willis told the Wall Street Journal that he wanted to make the Times more appealing to women and minorities by producing stories that were “more emotional, more personal and less analytic.”~ William McGowan Journalism is a profession that prides itself on its maverick outspokenness and allergic reaction to preconceived notions. Yet, in today’s media some notions are considered beyond scrutiny – including the merits of the diversity agenda.~ William McGowan I used to be employed as a field engineer servicing [a major broadcast network's] distribution equipment, specifically their affiliates' satellite dishes. I've had many talks with TV newsmen. The most telling was one who confessed that he didn't think he could continue his job and live with himself because he daily saw 'the difference between what I am forced to report and what's really happening.' He told me that, at the first meeting with 'corporate's' news director [from the corporate holding company that owned the station, not the network], the ND told them that 'our job as reporters was to shape public opinion.' When someone protested that their job was to discover and report the truth, the ND responded, 'Whatever the public's perception is is the truth and it's your job to make sure that they have the proper perceptions.' That man's statement is always in the back of my mind whenever I see or read anything in the 'news,' that the job of reporters today is not to report hard, verifiable facts but rather to shape public opinion using selected facts presented in carefully arranged fashion.~ Chris Meissen I believe there is a limit beyond which free speech cannot go, but it's a limit that's very seldom mentioned. It's the point where free speech begins to collide with the right to privacy. I don't think there are any other conditions to free speech. I've got a right to say and believe anything I please, but I haven't got a right to press it on anybody else. .... Nobody's got a right to be a nuisance to his neighbors.~ H. L. Mencken The common notion that free speech prevails in the United States always makes me laugh.~ H. L. Mencken And let us remind readers regularly, in editorials, in our promotional advertising, in speeches to civic groups and others, that advertising helps people to live better and saves them money. This fact needs constant selling.~ Paul Miller Until you've lost your reputation, you never realize what a burden it was or what freedom really is.~ Margaret Mitchell The ink of a scholar is more sacred than the blood of the martyr.~ Mohammed Whoever controls the media, controls the mind.~ Jim Morrison If you think there is freedom of the press in the United States, I tell you there is no freedom of the press... They come out with the cheap shot. The press should be ashamed of itself. They should come to both sides of the issue and hear both sides and let the American people make up their minds.~ Bill Moyers Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print