Rupert Murdoch Quotes

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

Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter.

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

1952 was the last year that television covered a political event as if television weren't there.

As to the journalist himself, it is clear that to get a living he must write to order, that is, he must write in accordance with the views of his paper, in so far as he writes at all on current topics.

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

You have to be down here in the States to realize just how tightly controlled the corporate media is and how much they practise Soviet-style censorship through creative omission.

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

The press is like the peculiar uncle you keep in the attic - just one of those unfortunate things.

I do not wanna write a song like 'Coathanger' so Andrew Breitbart can rage against me on his web site. It's not my idea of fun.

We shouldn't build a technology to colour, or grey out, what people say. The media in general is balanced, although there are a lot of issues to be addressed that the media rightly pick up on.

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

For the sake of public discourse, for the demands of the free market, and for the value we place in citizen advocacy, Rush Limbaugh must go.

Well I don't think sex and violence have ever stopped a movie from being mainstream.

'...all the faults of the age come from Christianity and journalism

There is much to be said in favour of modern journalism. By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.

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

The journalistic traits that are valued on TV and radio talk shows are destructive to democracy.

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

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.

Junk journalism is the evidence of a society that has got at least one thing right, that there should be nobody with the power to dictate where responsible journalism begins

Whatever may be said about the power of the press, it is undeniable that it can set the entire public thinking and talking about any topic ...

Today the greatest evil—and therefore the most immediate—is the press.

There is a power in our land, irresponsible, corrupt and malicious—‘the press,’ which has created the intense feelings of hostility that has arrayed the two parts of the country against each other, which must be curbed and brought within the just limits of reason and law, before we can have peace in America. We can deal with armies who have a visible and tangible existence, but it will require tact and skill and courage to clip the wings of this public enemy.

I have tried to write about this matter without any improper bias, but of course we are all cowards about newspapers who tyrannize over us all.