Tom Stoppard Quotes

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

A free and truly independent press - fiercely independent when necessary - is the red beating heart of freedom and democracy.

Freedom of the press underpins free societies around the world.

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

I'm very much in support of the free press, but the free press ought to be educational and informative. And I believe they have fallen down recently on that.

We believe that the remedy to any harm resulting from press freedom lies in press freedom itself.

The first responsibility of the press is to use its freedom to protect the rights and liberties of all individuals …. If the occasion arises, raise bloody hell.

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

In order to enjoy the inestimable benefits that the liberty of the press ensures, it is necessary to submit to the inevitable evils it creates

Press freedom is not just about journalists, right? It's not just about us, it's not just about me, it's not just about Rappler. Press freedom is... the foundation of every single right of every single Filipino to the truth, so that we can hold the powerful to account.

All murder is a tragedy but when journalists are killed, public debate loses a voice that can provide an important contribution to democracy. It is essential that governments do all they can to ensure safe conditions for journalists to carry out their work.

The job of the press is to encourage debate, not to supply the public with information.

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

The Ecuadorean and Latin American press is not like the European or North American press, which has some professional ethics. They are used to being above the law, to blackmail, to extort.

In my view, far from deserving condemnation for their courageous reporting, the New York Times, the Washington Post and other newspapers should be commended for serving the purpose that the Founding Fathers saw so clearly.

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.

The media does play a vital role in our democracy, and if we cannot depend on journalistic ethics, the nation's in trouble.

I was for many years myself a journalist and it is not appropriate to say a programme should not be broadcast.

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.

One of the unsung freedoms that go with a free press is the freedom not to read it.

I'm not going to make general comments about the British press.

The press is a watchdog. Not an attack dog. Not a lapdog. A watchdog. Now, a watchdog can't be right all the time. He doesn't bark only when he sees or smells something that's dangerous. A good watchdog barks at things that are suspicious.

I have always thought it morally unacceptable to kill stories, not to run stories, that people have risked their lives to get.

Vigorous independent and critical media are indispensable in a democracy.

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