Anthony Holden Quotes

Think of the press as a great keyboard on which the government can play.

The press keep asking me, 'What was your biggest mistake?' But if I had made a big mistake, they'd all be writing about it, wouldn't they?

The newspapers of your country seem to be more powerful than the government.

What matters to the press matters perforce to politicians.

The hand that rules the press, the radio, the screen, and the far spread magazine, rules the country.

One thing that is fairly undeniable about Trump - love him or loathe him - is his understanding of how to manipulate the media and to perpetuate a symbiotic relationship with the press.

We in the press, by our power, can actually undermine leadership.

People are terrified for their own reputations. They want the press on their side.

The concept that the press is an organ of government policy dies hard.

The press, like fire, is an excellent servant, but a terrible master.

It's not a very good idea to make an enemy of anyone who buys ink by the barrel.

The power is to set the agenda. What we print and what we don't print matter a lot.

The organization of our press has truly been a success. Our law concerning the press is such that divergences of opinion between members of the government are no longer an occasion for public exhibitions, which are not the newspapers' business.

The state must not ... let itself be confused by the drivel about so-called "freedom of the press," ... it must make sure of this instrument of popular education, and place it in the service of the state.

To say that the newspaper press represents public opinion is to administer insult to intelligent men. It is the property of speculators, political leaders, large contractors and railway directors.

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.

No one today in Washington doubts the superior firepower of the media over that of the executive branch.

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

Television is democracy at its ugliest.

I don't accept at all the quite popular argument that the press is responsible for the monarchy's recent troubles. The monarchy's responsible for the monarchy's recent troubles. To blame the press is the old thing of blaming the messenger for the message.

I get to hear the really good or the really bad things in the press, but I don't read it. I can afford to say that because public opinion does not drive U2's audience.

The press is the enemy.

Let me make the newspapers, and I care not what is preached in the pulpit or what is enacted in Congress.

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.