Rei Kawakubo Quotes

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

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

Thanks to TV and for the convenience of TV, you can only be one of two kinds of human beings, either a liberal or a conservative.

I apologize for what the media has done.

I don't know how you can do it, if you don't recognition the media as a power center in America.

The media has become more forceful, has begun to recognize its traditional historic role and act on it, and truth is infectious.

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

The Times has much less power than you think. I believe we attribute power to the media generally that it simply doesn't have. It's very convenient to blame the media, the same way we blame television for everything that's going wrong in society.

President Obama is not polarizing, but the media sure is.

American media has just become talk radio, incredibly partisan name-calling and op-eds. I think the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan proved it has completely failed to act as an effective fourth estate. And young people didn't sleep through that, as is widely believed; they learned instead not to trust what they were being told.

All the media are horrible.

I am not here to accuse the media of anything.

I'm concerned about the insidious influence of the media's bad messages that undermine the lessons parents try to instill in their sons and daughters.

The thing that sustains a strong Fox network is the thing that undermines a strong Republican party.

The media are not progressive enough to let us govern. 24/7 news is the worst thing that has happened to the ability to govern.

The press ... is but the servant of human intellect and its ministry is for good or evil, according to the character of those who direct it. The press is a mill that grinds all that is put into its hopper. Fill the hopper with poisoned grain and it will grind it to meal, but there is death in the bread.

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

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.

Media creates awareness [and] ensures transparency and accountability.

Being beyond politics, I am able to examine the role of the media without worrying about the indignant harrumphing that emanates from many journalists and commentators when you do so.

It's hard not to look at the road of the media and how the media is a big part of painting a picture for public opinion.

Whoever said I hated the media?

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

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.

Understanding how the media actually works is critical. Because editors depend on ignorance and media illiteracy to ply their trade. The fact that many readers expect fact checking, editorial oversight, and ethics actually makes it easier for the media to be lazy.