Urmila Matondkar Quotes

I don't owe the media anything.

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

'Moral police' is my new word. I am very against the media doing moral policing, giving opinions on actor's lives. Media should not become moral police; they should just report.

There was no doubt that in the early and mid-eighties that many of us in broadsheet newspapers felt that we still had a responsibility to try to protect the Royal Family or if you like protect the Monarchy from the assaults of the media.

I respect very much the role of the media in our society; I think they can be very, very helpful. They serve as a very useful check, sort of a watchdog over the actions of the government, and I respect that.

Whoever said I hated the media?

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

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.

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

All the legal action I've taken against newspapers has had a massively positive effect on my life and achieved exactly what I wanted, which is privacy and non-harassment.

I don't have anything to hide but what happens is the media tend to beat up what I say.

I am not here to accuse the media of anything.

I am a passionate believer in freedom of speech. I would not support anything which would impinge on aggressive robust freedom of the British press, but when things go wrong and there has been outright illegality, there should be proper accountability.

The media doesn't need a conscience; people need consciences.

One of the most powerful defences the media can offer for controversial actions is, of course, public interest.

I respect the press. The press and the media are a very useful watchdog to check the power of the government.

I apologize for what the media has done.

The fourth estate which if not well looked to, will turn us all out of doors.

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

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 may be President of the United States but my personal life is nobody’s damn business

In order to enjoy the inestimable benefits that the liberty of the press ensures, it is necessary to submit to the inevitable evils it creates

The press has become the greatest power within the Western countries, more powerful than the legislature, the executive and the judiciary. One would then like to ask: by what law has it been elected and to whom is it responsible?

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

If you're on TV, you can't complain, right? And I understand that, and it's true to a certain degree.