Pete Sampras Quotes

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

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

Media is a big problem around the world, it's powerful and can abuse its power.

Broadcasting is really too important to be left to the broadcasters.

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

In the U.K., the history of regulation, certainly regulation of the media, is one in which, time and again, successive governments lacked the 'bottle' to enforce the powers that were available to them.

So the system we have in radio and television today is the direct result of government policies that have been made in our name, in the name of the people, on our behalf, but without our informed consent.

I think it is absolutely essential in a democracy to have competition in the media, a lot of competition, and we seem to be moving away from that.

Fear rules almost every newsroom in the country.

Almost anything is better than three network TV outlets completely controlling the national discourse with their nightly broadcasts. We've moved a long way from that, and that's important.

Britain is a very small country with a very large press.

The media are not progressive enough to let us govern. 24/7 news is the worst thing that has happened to the ability to govern.

Give people control of the media and they will use it. Don’t give them control and you will lose it.

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

The decision of what, when, and how to publish is for editors, not judges.

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

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

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.

Television should be regulated like a toaster.

Arab media is market driven like the American media. It does not so much shape public opinion as much as it reflects it.

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.

For thirty years the press has ceased to exist in Turkey. There are indeed newspapers, many of them even, but the scissors of censorship cut them in so emasculating a manner that they no longer have any potency. If I dare, I would call them gelded newspapers or rather, to keep the local color, eunuchs.

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

The media have entered government as a revolutionary force.

The press has become the greatest power within the Western countries, more powerful than the legislature, the executive and the judiciary. One would then like to ask: by what law has it been elected and to whom is it responsible?