Oscar Wilde Quotes

The Press, which is mostly controlled by vested interests, has an excessive influence on public opinion.

I myself have felt the wrath of the media, but that's part of what a good democracy is.

A Fourth Estate, of Able Editors, springs up.

I never sue journalists. I employ journalists. I employ too many of them. I don't sue journalists.

Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets.

Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter.

The newspapers, magazines and other journals of the country, it is safe to say, have shed and continue to shed, more light on the public and business affairs of, the nation than any other instrumentality of public; and since informed public opinion is the most potent of all restraints upon misgovernment, the suppression or abridgment of the publicity afforded by a free press cannot be regarded otherwise than with grave concern.

In America the president reigns for four years, and journalism governs for ever and ever.

Burke said there were three estates in Parliament; but in the reporter's gallery yonder, there sat a fourth estate more important far than they all.

Then there is the newspaper press, that huge engine for making the political test final.

There is no weapon stronger than the press.

That awful power, the public opinion of a nation, is created in America by a horde of ignorant, self-complacent simpletons who failed at ditching and shoemaking and fetched up in journalism on their way to the poorhouse.

Whatever may be said about the power of the press, it is undeniable that it can set the entire public thinking and talking about any topic ...

At the end of the day, media is going to say whatever they're going to say.

Now everybody has to work together. They are the fourth estate. Incredibly powerful.

the 'public' - a term often used in America to indicate the great metropolitan newspapers.

You can crush a man with journalism.

The press is not only free, it is powerful. That power is ours. It is the proudest that man can enjoy.

Journalism has a distinct place in familiarizing and expressing public opinion.

You have mosquitoes. I have the Press.

If the media spotlight affects my work or represses what I want to say in the future, then it is bad.

Had not almost every man suffered by the Press, or were not the tyranny thereof become universal, I had not wanted reason for complaint.

I hate to speak for the whole society, but I will. I'm a journalist, it's my job. There's been something of a reaction against political correctness. Needless to say, the government hasn't caught up yet.

I am very enamored with the free press, and I was part of it for a period of time.

The penny-papers of New York do more to govern this country than the White House at Washington.