Diana Rigg Quotes

If I had my choice I would kill every reporter in the world, but I am sure we would be getting reports from Hell before breakfast.

I happen to believe that any legitimate news organization in the world would do that interview. And if the United States is going to be a proponent of a free press, it has to walk the walk.

The British press are a group of unremitting scumbags. And sometimes they use that scumbaggery to good ends, and often not.

I'm not going to make general comments about the British press.

In the U.K., journalists are a little bit more ruthless than in Denmark. I have a feeling the tabloid press in the U.K. is pretty harsh.

We in the media should be breaking the news and not making the news.

I apologize for what the media has done.

The press are scum.

Let's be clear: there was no golden age of journalism. The media has always been bad. And instead of improving, it spent a lot of time and energy making up its own myth.

I don't owe the media anything.

We are inflicting opinion in our newscasts like never before. That was never done and never taught in our journalism classes.

Journalists play God when they decide for their readers when to hide information from them. Frequently, those choices are unavoidable.

The Ecuadorean and Latin American press is not like the European or North American press, which has some professional ethics. They are used to being above the law, to blackmail, to extort.

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

You know, the media and politicians are always gonna be in a bit of tension with one another and probably most of the time that's healthy and indeed even creative. But it's where - it's really when news organisations are used as kind of instruments of politics that it gets tricky.

As long as Rupert Murdoch has owned it, the 'New York Post' has been defined by its shamelessness and total lack of interest in taking responsibility for its worst errors and poor judgment.

If I'd written all the truth I knew for the past ten years, about 600 people - including me - would be rotting in prison cells from Rio to Seattle today. Absolute truth is a very rare and dangerous commodity in the context of professional journalism.

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

In the last 15 or 20 years, I've watched the British press simply go to hell. There seems to be no limit, no depths to which the tabloids won't sink. I don't know who these people are but they're little pigs.

Perhaps the biggest problem in journalism is the cult divide between journalists and corporate owners.

When journalists forget that our job is to question and annoy those in power, there can be huge consequences.

The media does play a vital role in our democracy, and if we cannot depend on journalistic ethics, the nation's in trouble.

The most important service rendered by the press and the magazines is that of educating people to approach printed matter with distrust.

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

At Grozny TV, the line between journalism and government propaganda is traversed as often as a Manhattan crosswalk.