Kevin Whately Quotes

How united would the United States be without its newspapers?

I don't read the press that much.

That endless book, the newspaper, is our national glory.

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

I do not read newspapers. I do not watch television. I am not interested in current events, although I will occasionally discuss them if other people want to discuss them.

Most people don't read editorial pages. I think I must have been 40 before I even looked at an editorial page.

I don't read the paper.

It is an honor to take the helm of 'Reliable Sources,' the very best of a very small number of programs about the media's role in society.

I know journalists like to think that they are read by people like me, but I don't read them.

I have never quite grasped the worry about the power of the press. After all, it speaks with a thousand voices, in constant dissonance.

I know there are reporters who ridicule pundits.

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

I didn't look at any of the newspapers, I look at the pictures sometimes, but apart from that I don't read them.

I used to think the press was a necessary evil and now I don't think it is. I think it's something you choose.

As far as the media is concerned, I wouldn't shoot anything down.

A lot of people take shots at news channels.

If there's one thing that everyone can agree on, it's that, right or wrong, they hate the press.

I think people should be consumers of journalism.

Media is just a word that has come to mean bad journalism.

I don't love the media. I'm part of it, but you can't love a porcupine.

The newspapers, magazines and other journals of the country, it is safe to say, have shed and continue to shed, more light on the public and business affairs of, the nation than any other instrumentality of public; and since informed public opinion is the most potent of all restraints upon misgovernment, the suppression or abridgment of the publicity afforded by a free press cannot be regarded otherwise than with grave concern.

The force of the newspaper is the greatest force in civilization.... [Newspapers] declare wars ... make and unmake statesmen.

The newspaper is a moral force second only to the church. It is a political power superior to parties. It is an instrument of justice coequal with the court.

The Press is such as the public demands, and the public demands bad newspapers because it has been badly educated.

There are those who blame the Press, but in this I think they are mistaken. The Press is such as the public demands, and the public demands bad newspapers because it has been badly educated.