Toni Kroos Quotes

If journalism is good, it is controversial, by its nature.

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

As far as the press is concerned, they're going to say what they want to say. Probably about 10-15 percent of the time It's accurate.

The media's job is to question a premise.

I wouldn't agree with some of the things that the press writes about and that's all I have to say about that.

I love the op-ed pages of the 'L.A. Times,' the 'Washington Post' and the 'New York Times.' There's just no substitute for the people who are thinking and writing on those pages.

I think the best thing in cases of censorship or things like this is to get as much media as possible.

I keep telling myself to calm down, to take less of an interest in things and not to get so excited, but I still care a lot about liberty, freedom of speech and expression, and fairness in journalism.

Presidential coverage used to be a very serious endeavor.

I'm not an absolutist about free speech. Intellectually, I believe that most of the time it's better to let things get said, argue them, and put lies and stupidities to rest. Practically, I know that newspapers rarely issue corrections with the same prominence they give to denouncements - and Twitter, by its nature, never does.

I'm supremely uninterested as to what is written in many of the newspapers.

I like BuzzFeed, and I understand the pressure that online reporters are under. But I think everyone agrees that, despite all the awesome kitten gifs, they're still obligated to be skeptical of government officials and ask the right questions.

I read the papers like everybody else, so I don't complain about what they print.

I think you should be able to have a press conference without having reporters key in on certain divisive issues.

It is a newspaper's duty to print the news and raise hell.

Turner, forget it. We don't go in for that kind of crap that you have back in New York -- of being obliged to print both sides. We're going to beat this son-of-a-bitch Sinclair any way we can. We're going to kill him.

For my part though silent I have at times felt that I would prefer to be governed by Davis, Beauregard & Bragg, [than] to be thus abused by a set of dirty newspaper scribblers who have the impudence of Satan. They come into camp, poke around among the lazy shirks & pick up their camp Rumors & publish them as facts.... They are a pest and Shall not approach me, and I will treat them as spies, which in truth they are.

What reporters may increasingly see as a necessity, readers see as a scourge.

Journalism is what we need to make democracy work.

I normally have a healthy fear of journalists.

No one needs to tell me about the importance of the free press in a democratic society or about the essential role a newspaper can play in its community.

The press has a right to go out and write stories... but I think similarly, and what Donald Trump has proven... is that when people are wrong, he's going to hold them accountable, and he's going to correct the record.

I couldn't find any way to tell the truth in a regular newspaper.

I have been fortunate that publications like the 'New York Times' and 'The Wall Street Journal' have allowed me to share some of my opinions with a wider audience.

When Senator Cruz, with all due respect, tries to throw my network and CNN under the bus, let me stand up for my colleagues and journalists here.