William Cowper Quotes

Power in America today is control of the means of communication.

We do not need a censorship of the press. We have a censorship by the press.

Whatever may be said about the power of the press, it is undeniable that it can set the entire public thinking and talking about any topic ...

Had not almost every man suffered by the Press, or were not the tyranny thereof become universal, I had not wanted reason for complaint.

The Press, Watson, is a most valuable institution, if you only know how to use it.

Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets.

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.

In any event, the proper question isn't what a journalist thinks is relevant but what his or her audience thinks is relevant. Denying people information they would find useful because you think they shouldn't find it useful is censorship, not journalism.

I mean the idea of this is that it's a good thing for the public to hear interviews like this and that there will be an inevitable amount of fewer interviews if people that the press talks to wind up thinking, well, it's not really a CBS correspondent.

Never pick a fight with people who buy ink by the barrel.

The press is our chief ideological weapon.

It is a misfortune that necessity has induced men to accord greater license to this formidable engine, in order to obtain liberty, than can be borne with less important objects in view; for the press, like fire, is an excellent servant, but a terrible master.

Human freedom increasingly depends on who controls what we know and, therefore, how we understand our world. It depends on what information we are able to create and disseminate: what we can share, how we can share it, and with whom we can share it.

The power of the periodical press is second only to that of the people.

Thanks to television, for the first time the young are seeing history made before it is censored by their elders.

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.

The freedom of the press works in such a way that there is not much freedom from it.

The strategies and assumptions [of the propaganda model] are fundamentally contrary to a democratic model.... The goal of the propaganda model is simply to achieve efficient indoctrination, and it therefore tends to regard the assumptions of the democratic model as inconvenient obstacles to efficient communication.

Thou god of our idolatry, the Press.

The presentation of an issue can no longer be controlled.

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

To-day a democrat of the old school would demand, not freedom for the press, but freedom from the press

There is no weapon stronger than the press.

Today the greatest evil—and therefore the most immediate—is the press.

Like the invention of the printing press before it, the Internet has been the greatest instrumentality of free speech and the exchange of ideas in the history of mankind.