Harold Wilson Quotes

The media bring our wars home, but only rarely have they been able to do it in complete freedom.

A free press doesn't mean it's not a tame press.

The U.S. corporate media, otherwise known as the "free press," is that hollow pillar on which contemporary American democracy rests.

The editor of a newspaper cannot be independent, but must work with one hand tied behind him by party and patrons, and be content to utter only half or two-thirds of his mind . writers of all kinds are manacled servants of the public. We write frankly and fearlessly, but then we "modify" before we print.

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.

Some of the press who speak loudly about the freedom of the press are themselves the enemies of freedom. Countless people dare not say a thing because they know it will be picked up and made a song of by the press. That limits freedom.

The most important responsibility we have as journalists is to question those who are in power. I honestly believe that.

The media in America has become so cowed and compromised.

Family ownership provides the independence that is sometimes required to withstand governmental pressure and preserve freedom of the press.

Whenever it's suggested that our sponsors have some kind of influence or control of what we cover in some kind of censorship through financial pressure, it's rubbish. That's never happened.

My level of intervention in the press, trying to control stories, is zero. Subzero.

A free press can of course be good or bad, but most certainly, without freedom it will never be anything but bad.

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

The political misrepresentation of facts is one of the incidents of a free press in every free country.

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.

The few ... being closely combined ... inploy no printers [journalists and writers] but those that will adhear strictly to their vuies and interests.

To say that the newspaper press represents public opinion is to administer insult to intelligent men. It is the property of speculators, political leaders, large contractors and railway directors.

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.

When you read Western press, you probably get a feeling that all Russian press is censored, there's no freedom at all, we can't say whatever, which is absolutely, absolutely, completely untrue.

We should never have any political or religious organization filter our news.

It is very difficult to have a free, fair and honest press anywhere in the world. In the first place, as a rule, papers are largely supported by advertising, and that immediately gives the advertisers a certain hold over the medium they use.

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

Without freedom of the press, there can be no representative government.

Think of the press as a great keyboard on which the government can play.

I can assure you that I have never used my media companies for propaganda, and I will never do so.