Bernie Sanders Quotes

Republicans originally thought that Fox worked for us and now we're discovering we work for Fox.

And the big issue here, I think, is that the publisher took over the editorial pages, a guy named Jeff Johnson. He's an accountant from Chicago, doesn't know anything about what newspapers are supposed to be about, and he made a decision to get rid of the column.

The freedom of the press throughout the world where the capitalists rule, is the freedom to buy up papers, the freedom to buy writers, to buy and manufacture public opinion in the interest of the capitalists.

I really do think we're going through a period of concentration of ownership of media, and we're starting to see the effects at the editorial level, and it's all bad. This increased pressure for profits every quarter, smaller news hole, less coverage of important stuff - the extent that it's become one giant infotainment industry.

There is no independent American print or TV media.

The problem that we've had is four media companies run media, globally. And some say they're on the Right and some say they're on the Left; look, they're all afraid of losing Ford as a client. So they're all, by definition, huge companies that are going to be inherently conservative.

Virtually every magazine, newspaper, TV station and cable channel is owned by a big corporation, and they've squashed stories that they don't want the public to know about.

Why something in the public interest such as television news can be fought over, like a chain of hamburger stands, eludes me.

And we've become very doubtful of our information sources, because they're all controlled by these huge multilateral corporations.

As the mainstream media has become increasingly dependent on advertising revenues for support, it has become an anti-democratic force in society.

Let me make the newspapers, and I care not what is preached in the pulpit or what is enacted in Congress.

The Nixon administration really put a lot of pressure on CBS not to run the second broadcast.

The media in America has become so cowed and compromised.

Having a few companies controlling everything we read, see or hear is destroying our culture.

A city with one newspaper, or with a morning and an evening paper under one ownership, is like a man with one eye, and often the eye is glass.

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.

In my opinion, any man who can afford to buy a newspaper should not be allowed to own one.

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

The United States, along with other major democracies, is moving swiftly toward media control by a handful of gigantic multi-national corporations.

All the news that fits we print.

International bankers control the majority of the magazines and newspapers in this country.

There is a power in our land, irresponsible, corrupt and malicious—‘the press,’ which has created the intense feelings of hostility that has arrayed the two parts of the country against each other, which must be curbed and brought within the just limits of reason and law, before we can have peace in America. We can deal with armies who have a visible and tangible existence, but it will require tact and skill and courage to clip the wings of this public enemy.

I have tried to write about this matter without any improper bias, but of course we are all cowards about newspapers who tyrannize over us all.

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

With media companies today owned and sponsored by large corporations, it is difficult to know whether the news can be trusted.