Tina Yothers Quotes

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.

The biased left-wing media does what it wants. That's not going to define me or hamper me.

I used to think the press was a necessary evil and now I don't think it is. I think it's something you choose.

The chief danger which threatens the influence and honor of the press is the tendency of its liberty to degenerate into license.

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

The fact that there aren't more restrictions on the media is disgraceful.

When I was at MSNBC, I had issues with the Obama administration. I got told by the person who runs MSNBC... that Washington was not happy with my tone.

The media can allege corruption, but if I do the same against the media, I am gagging freedom of expression.

The U.S. corporate media, otherwise known as the "free press," is that hollow pillar on which contemporary American democracy rests.

I have never quite grasped the worry about the power of the press. After all, it speaks with a thousand voices, in constant dissonance.

I think there are a lot of reasons to be critical of the media in America.

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

So this is all part of a free society. People are entitled to hold whatever view they want, and the media can report things how they wish.

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.

I think the media needs a little criticizing now, as it did in the '80s, don't you?

All the media are horrible.

Well, thank God for a media that will ask questions.

Almost anything is better than three network TV outlets completely controlling the national discourse with their nightly broadcasts. We've moved a long way from that, and that's important.

I am not here to accuse the media of anything.

I respect very much the role of the media in our society; I think they can be very, very helpful. They serve as a very useful check, sort of a watchdog over the actions of the government, and I respect that.

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

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

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.

It is stupid on my part to think of banning the media.

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