Marianne Faithfull Quotes

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

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

All the media are horrible.

Avoid both infatuation with or resentment of the press.

I'm not worried by politics: I'm worried about the media.

We call media out that hasn't played and have crazy opinions.

I definitely have a real frustration with the media, especially having dealt with them as an agent.

The media has become more forceful, has begun to recognize its traditional historic role and act on it, and truth is infectious.

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

The Times has much less power than you think. I believe we attribute power to the media generally that it simply doesn't have. It's very convenient to blame the media, the same way we blame television for everything that's going wrong in society.

If there is a silver lining in the action of MSNBC against Keith Olbermann, it is that people will now pay more attention to the political role of corporate media in America.

Certain media-related developments in the country are raising questions regarding its objectivity and credibility. Paid news and the declining roles of the editors and their editorial freedom is posing a major threat to the Indian media.

Don't hate the media, become the media.

My father left me with a clear sense that the media was something different.

I am not here to accuse the media of anything.

TV serves us most usefully when presenting junk-entertainment; it serves us most ill when it co-opts serious modes of discourse - news, politics, science, education, commerce, religion.

We need to take on Hollywood. They are poisoning the minds of our kids.

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

Past occurrences have generally shown that there hasn’t been satisfaction from politicians in the manner they were covered [by the press.]

The media is like the terrain and weather. It is a fact; it's nothing you can change. You have to learn to deal with it. And it isn't bad or good, it's just there. I don't think we should put limits on the press, unless it's for security reasons or for reasons of risk in the case of an operation. We value freedom of the press. It's something we are fighting for. It's part of the constitutional rights that we swear our allegiance to. We just have to accept it and learn to deal with it in a right way, and give and take.

I accept the media for what they are. Most of them are really good people. Some of them are scumbags.

The whole notion of journalism being an institution whose fundamental purpose is to educate and inform and even, one might say, elevate, has altered under commercial pressure, perhaps, into a different kind of purpose, which is to divert and distract and entertain.

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

Whoever said I hated the media?

If you don't trust the media, they are not going to trust you, and if they don't trust you, it's hard for the public to trust you.