All I know is what I read in the papers.
Newspaper Quotes
I am considerably concerned when I see the extent to which we are developing a one-party press in a two-party country.
If I were to give liberty to the press, my power could not last three days.
I hope we never live to see the day when a thing is as bad as some of our newspapers make it.
Junk journalism is the evidence of a society that has got at least one thing right, that there should be nobody with the power to dictate where responsible journalism begins.
I never read French newspapers, they print only what I want them to.
I picked up a newspaper today and I couldn’t believe it. I read eight headlines that talked about chaos, violence, unrest. And it just was Henny Penny – ‘The sky is falling’. I’ve never seen anything like it! (Looting in Iraq)
Freedom of the press… is freedom to print such of the proprietor’s prejudices as the advertisers don’t object to.
The press is the best instrument for enlightening the mind of man, and improving him as a rational, moral and social being.
The press is a midden heap, full of bits and pieces of things, some of them true, and maybe valuable, but all of them fragments from which the citizen must construct his own distorted portrait of reality. I object to the idea that somehow the press, the media, are going to provide the people with […]
