Christopher Monckton Quotes

We believe that the remedy to any harm resulting from press freedom lies in press freedom itself.

What is the liberty of the press? Who can give it any definition that would not leave the utmost latitude for evasion …. Its [the press's] security … must altogether depend on public opinion.

Press freedom has great virtues. It is not about irresponsible scandal-mongering, although that may be part of the picture. It is a means of revealing wrongdoing.

Journalism is the protection between people and any sort of totalitarian rule. That's why my hero, admittedly a flawed one, is a journalist.

We need a free media, not just freedom of speech.

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.

Freedom of the press, printing, publication and mass media shall be guaranteed. Censorship on newspapers is forbidden as well as notifying, suspending or cancelling them by administrative methods. In a state of emergency or in time of war a limited censorship may be imposed on the newspapers, publications and mass media in matters related to public safety or purposes of national security in accordance with the law.

A free press may be good or bad, but without freedom a press can only be bad.

Turkey still has one of the highest number of imprisoned journalists in the world.

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

Media doesn't like when other media gets their credentials pulled - that's not OK.

The media can allege corruption, but if I do the same against the media, I am gagging freedom of expression.

The liberty of the press is a blessing when we are inclined to write against others, and a calamity when we find ourselves overborne by the multitude of our assailants.

Although I may find the type of programming seen during the 2004 Super Bowl and the 2003 Golden Globe Awards disgusting and disturbing, we must always work hard to defend the cherished freedoms so clearly outlined in our Constitution, including a healthy and free press.

Nobody from the administration has officially rejected my column.

It should be clear by now that my focus here is not freedom of speech or the press. This freedom is all too often an exaggeration. At the very least, blind references to freedom of speech or the press serve as a distraction from the critical examination of other communications policies.

I don't think any media has to feel obliged to show the cover of 'Charlie Hebdo.'

I'm not a big fan of regulation: anyone who likes freedom of the press can't be.

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

A free press needs to be a respected press.

More than once at TechCrunch, we made AOL extremely uncomfortable with things that we wrote. But they never ordered us to write or not write about something because they understood that not only would we not comply, we'd write a post about the whole thing.

We have got to make sure there is proper independent scrutiny and accountability for people in the press, just as there should be in any other industry where things go wrong. But let's not try and think it is for politicians or governments to tell people what they stick in newspapers. That is deeply illiberal.

One of the unsung freedoms that go with a free press is the freedom not to read it.

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

A free and truly independent press - fiercely independent when necessary - is the red beating heart of freedom and democracy.