Andrew Vachss Quotes

A free press can of course be good or bad, but most certainly, without freedom it will never be anything but bad.

We do not want to interfere with the freedom of press.

I cannot overemphasise the value we place on a free, independent and outspoken press

A free press can only exist where there is private control over the means of production

Without freedom of the press, there can be no representative government.

We need a free media, not just freedom of speech.

A free, analytical and questioning press must be helped survive.

It should be clear by now that my focus here is not freedom of speech or the press. This freedom is all too often an exaggeration. At the very least, blind references to freedom of speech or the press serve as a distraction from the critical examination of other communications policies.

Family ownership provides the independence that is sometimes required to withstand governmental pressure and preserve freedom of the press.

A free press needs to be a respected press.

The media bring our wars home, but only rarely have they been able to do it in complete freedom.

Our founding fathers could not have foreseen that freedom of the press might eventually be threatened just as much by media consolidation as by government.

My level of intervention in the press, trying to control stories, is zero. Subzero.

One of our greatest glories is closure of offending newspapers. Based on our assessments, by doing this, we have done the greatest service to the people

Freedom of the press and a free society either prosper together or perish together.

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

To-day a democrat of the old school would demand, not freedom for the press, but freedom from the press

A free press may be good or bad, but without freedom a press can only be bad.

CNN is an American symbol of independent journalism and First Amendment free speech. My board and I are clear: CNN will remain completely independent from an editorial perspective.

The press in India, I believe, is more free, and happily so, than perhaps media anywhere in the world. Right? Which is a good thing.

If the press is to be free, the state has no role in regulating what is published.

Freedom of the press underpins free societies around the world.

When you read Western press, you probably get a feeling that all Russian press is censored, there's no freedom at all, we can't say whatever, which is absolutely, absolutely, completely untrue.

We should never have any political or religious organization filter our news.

We have more freedom of the press than any other country in a similar position. Even way back in the frightened '50s, Communists, for example, could publish their magazine. The KKK published their own books. But face it, the mass media is controlled by money.