Andrew Neil Quotes

Given what the media have put the country through this past decade, it must come as a surprise to most Americans that the press has a code of ethics.

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

We in the media accept the responsibility of what we do.

The great tension in media has always been that freedom and quality are conflicting goals.

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

Publishing is a business, but journalism never was and is not essentially a business. Nor is it a profession.

As long as Rupert Murdoch has owned it, the 'New York Post' has been defined by its shamelessness and total lack of interest in taking responsibility for its worst errors and poor judgment.

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

I've never been shocked by anything on television, except the news.

All the media are horrible.

I went into journalism to do journalism, not advertising.

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

I am not here to accuse the media of anything.

I take a grave view of the press. It is the weak slat under the bed of democracy.

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.

I happen to believe that any legitimate news organization in the world would do that interview. And if the United States is going to be a proponent of a free press, it has to walk the walk.

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

I apologize for what the media has done.

The press are scum.

It’s a lot easier and cheaper to have thumbsuckers and pundits on television than it is to have reporters and news bureaus around the world.

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

The Israeli media are very important to me. I've been part of them and they a part of me all my adult life.

Whoever said I hated the media?

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

Sure enough, as merger has followed merger, journalism has been driven further down the hierarchy of values in the huge conglomerates that dominate what we see, read and hear. And to feed the profit margins journalism has been directed to other priorities than "the news we need to know to keep our freedoms"