Don McCullin Quotes

Most of the press is in league with government, or with the status quo.

...the liberty of the Press is called the Palladium of Freedom, which means, in these days, the liberty of being deceived, swindled, and humbugged by the Press and paying hugely for the deception.

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

A newspaper is a device for making the ignorant more ignorant and the crazy crazier.

You can't get past the liberal press with a bucket of ink.

The media is really failing the American people.

I loathe and despise the media in a way I did not think possible.

There's controversy around Fox. I understand that.

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 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.

I most definitely would not buy the 'Daily Mail,' which pours a kind of livid torpor into the eyelids of the average Brit - I skimmed through a copy recently and couldn't believe the rubbish in it.

During the run up to the Iraq War, Mike Farrell and I did get on television kind of frequently, but then they saw that that didn't work. They really couldn't bait us into being stupid, so they stopped. You know the mainstream media, corporate media, avoids ever giving anyone who has anything to say a platform, if they can possibly help it.

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

I think democracy's undermined when those who own newspapers fill them with trivia rather than real issues.

I have opened newspapers and read incredible lies.

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.

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

When you mutilate movies for mass media, you tamper with the hearts and minds of America.

The papers, you know, they're always gonna just make stuff up. They think it's in the public interest.

I have been under assault by the liberal media in the United States.

I've thought for the last decade or so, the only actual place raw truth was seeping through in newspapers was on the Comics Pages. They were able to pull off intelligent social comment, pure truths not found elsewhere in the news pages, and had the ability to make it all funny, entertaining, and pertinent.

News is what somebody somewhere wants to suppress; all the rest is advertising.

It is grievous to read the papers in most respects, I agree. More and more I skim the headlines only, for one can be sure what is carried beneath them quite automatically, if one has long been a reader of the press journalism.

This country is a better place because Fox News has succeeded.

You turn on the TV, and you see very bland interviews. Journalists in the United States are very cozy with power, very close to those in power.