Rush Limbaugh Quotes

I apologize for what the media has done.

The press ... is but the servant of human intellect and its ministry is for good or evil, according to the character of those who direct it. The press is a mill that grinds all that is put into its hopper. Fill the hopper with poisoned grain and it will grind it to meal, but there is death in the bread.

I feel much more strongly about the abdication of responsibility by the media than by political advocates. They're representing a constituency.

Given what the media have put the country through this past decade, it must come as a surprise to most Americans that the press has a code of ethics.

The newspapers turn a blind eye to how they get their material as long as they have great photographs.

Giving the same value to fiction as to fact in the interest of so-called fairness is to mislead the American people and the press has become party to that.

I happen to believe that any legitimate news organization in the world would do that interview. And if the United States is going to be a proponent of a free press, it has to walk the walk.

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

While they shriek for "freedom of the press" when there is no slightest threat to that freedom, they deny to citizens that freedom from the press to which the decencies of life entitle them. They misrepresent, they distort, they color, they blackguard, they lie.

Editorialists who tell downright lies in order to advance their own agendas do more to discredit the press than all the censors in the world.

The most sacred cow of the press is the press itself

It seems that in the rush to be the first one to the story, the media overstates things. Not maliciously; I don't think they're intentionally misleading. But the credibility gap is already there, and in this rush to get to the story first, a lot of mainstream outlets just erode their credibility further.

We need ethical journalism. There is also capacity limitations in journalism.

The great tension in media has always been that freedom and quality are conflicting goals.

I think the media is among the most dishonest groups of people I've ever met.

The press has become so dishonest that if we don't talk about, we are doing a tremendous disservice to the American people. Tremendous disservice. We have to talk to find out what's going on, because the press honestly is out of control. The level of dishonesty is out of control.

When "news stories" are broken, do we not expect a certain amount of fact-checking or source-checking? One has to ask if this falls under the guise of sloppy reporting or deception as a source of spin. We seem to accept a certain amount of deception and we seem to be helpless to doing anything about it, as illustrated so clearly by where we are right now in this moment in history.

We talk about a free press. These people hide, they make a lot of money off the media. They hide behind the slogans of free press, and then they can come out with crap like that. It's just garbage. It's insulting to the readers.

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

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.

Journalism: A profession whose business is to explain to others what it personally does not understand.

In the last 15 or 20 years, I've watched the British press simply go to hell. There seems to be no limit, no depths to which the tabloids won't sink. I don't know who these people are but they're little pigs.

I was a bad journalist.

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

I am not here to accuse the media of anything.