Jill Stein Quotes

And we've become very doubtful of our information sources, because they're all controlled by these huge multilateral corporations.

I don't like to sit around whining about the corporate media, how they control everything, own everything. We already know that.

There's this proud American tradition of worrying about the power of communication companies. That going all the way back to the founding, we've tried to limit the power of monopolies that played a role in our democracy.

The handful of corporations that own most of the media outlets have an interest in reflecting establishment views.

Democracy is one person, one vote and a full discussion of the issues that affect us. Oligarchy is billionaires buying elections, voter suppression and a concentrated corporate media determining what we see, hear and read.

I think we really have to take a good, hard look at our system of corporate consolidated press. We need to break them up.

In the United States, both the upper levels of the Republican and Democratic Parties are in the pay of the corporate media and communication giants.

The United States, along with other major democracies, is moving swiftly toward media control by a handful of gigantic multi-national corporations.

The commercial press is not a free press, and it is not a public service organization. It is business, big business, and as such is motivated by one principle - profit.

A free press can of course be good or bad, but most certainly, without freedom it will never be anything but bad.

The press must be free; it has always been so and much evil has been corrected by it. If Government finds itself annoyed by it, let it examine its own conduct and it will find the cause.

The fourth estate which if not well looked to, will turn us all out of doors.

No government ought to be without censors: & where the press is free, no one ever will.

The real problem ... is to get to this unfair [press] coverage.... Use the anti-trust division [of the Justice Department] to investigate various media relating to anti-trust violations. Even the threat of anti-trust action I think would be effective in changing their views ...

Our press has too much freedom …. Democracy is a very lovely thing for a developed people.

The freedom of the press throughout the world where the capitalists rule, is the freedom to buy up papers, the freedom to buy writers, to buy and manufacture public opinion in the interest of the capitalists.

When there is a conflict between a [network] corporation and the needs of it’s news division, the corporate interest will win out.

The media have disproportionate control of the information in our society.

I do not allow hirelings of Standard Oil to define my democracy.

There is no way for people to vote against Goldman Sachs.

To-day a democrat of the old school would demand, not freedom for the press, but freedom from the press

When one millionaire has ten newspapers and ten million people have no newspapers—that is not freedom of the press.

All over the world, wherever there are capitalists, freedom of the press means freedom to buy up newspapers, to buy writers, to bribe, buy and fake “public opinion” for the benefit of the bourgeoisie.

The media have entered government as a revolutionary force.

I consider the media to be indispensable to democracy. That we need an independent media to hold people like me to account. […] power can be very addictive and it can be corrosive and it’s important for the media to call to account people who abuse their power, whether it be here or elsewhere.