Jimmy Wales Quotes

I think it is absolutely essential in a democracy to have competition in the media, a lot of competition, and we seem to be moving away from that.

As far as the media is concerned, I wouldn't shoot anything down.

To be honest with you, I worry about concentration of ownership in media, where you have a handful of media conglomerates largely controlling what we see, hear and read.

Well, many of us believe that excessive media concentration is a subject that ought to be addressed, and it is, of course, the intention of the majority party not to allow that to be discussed.

Town after town has but one newspaper or one radio station. It is often owned by Murdoch. Yes, we don't have as much freedom of the press as we think we have - although the traditional freedom of speech is strongly rooted in American culture.

Our free enterprise system of disseminating information is collectively referred to as The Media. But there is no collective.

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

The media is too concentrated, too few people own too much. There's really five companies that control 90 percent of what we read, see and hear. It's not healthy.

Broadcasting is really too important to be left to the broadcasters.

Incredible that liberals aren't more concerned about the monopoly of information in South Dakota.

Common sense tells us that this explosion of media sources should eliminate any concern over a lack of diversity of views in the marketplace and competition.

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.

There is no independent American print or TV media.

I am not against privatisation of the media channels but I stand for a strong regulation and transparency.

You have to be down here in the States to realize just how tightly controlled the corporate media is and how much they practise Soviet-style censorship through creative omission.

Europe has a press that stresses opinions; America a press, radio, and television that emphasize news.

Britain is a very small country with a very large press.

We shouldn't build a technology to colour, or grey out, what people say. The media in general is balanced, although there are a lot of issues to be addressed that the media rightly pick up on.

Also, the commercial media in a superior position, really, to any other corporate lobby, because where would people hear about commercial media or corporate media criticism, where would they hear criticism of them other than in the commercial media?

The American people should be made aware of the trend toward monopolization of the great public information vehicles and the concentration of more and more power over public opinion in fewer and fewer hands.

We are developing a media policy which would be about breaking up single ownership of too many sources of information so that we have a multiplicity of sources.

Vigorous independent and critical media are indispensable in a democracy.

Arab media is market driven like the American media. It does not so much shape public opinion as much as it reflects it.

There isn't much room for an outsider point of view in print any more.

'The Washington Post' doesn't have to report on what I post on Twitter. CNN doesn't have to report on what I post on Twitter. All kinds of media outlets - they don't have to report on anything that I post on Twitter. Just like they don't have to report on all kinds of other things that other people post on Twitter.