Mian Muhammed Javed Quotes

The job of the press is to encourage debate, not to supply the public with information.

It’s always a danger when an institution like the press becomes disconnected from the people.

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

The media has become more forceful, has begun to recognize its traditional historic role and act on it, and truth is infectious.

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

The function of government is to provide you with service; the function of the media is to supply the Vaseline.

I respect the press. The press and the media are a very useful watchdog to check the power of the government.

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.

The press ... is but the servant of human intellect and its ministry is for good or evil, according to the character of those who direct it. The press is a mill that grinds all that is put into its hopper. Fill the hopper with poisoned grain and it will grind it to meal, but there is death in the bread.

The media are much better at keeping politicians honest and accountable. They are not willing to look the other way as they sometimes have in the past.

Journalism is now not only reflecting what is happening, it is affecting what is happening. Governments all over the world watch CNN.

The function of a newspaper in a democracy is to stand as a sort of chronic opposition to the reigning quacks.

Many newspapers have become players as well as spectators in the political debate.

The newspaper is in all its literalness the bible of democracy, the book out of which a people determines its conduct

The Press has not only a great influence over our manners and morals, but contributes largely to our pleasures.

Today the greatest evil—and therefore the most immediate—is the press.

I do believe with all my soul In the gret Press's freedom, To pint the people to the goal And in the traces lead ‘em.

Public men are all amenable to the tribunal of the press in a free state. The greater, indeed, their trust, the more respectable are they.

I think the media could be a very good force for good, and I think Hollywood can, as well.

We need the media as the foundation of functioning institutions.

We in the media accept the responsibility of what we do.

The media is either our salvation or our death.

I have never quite grasped the worry about the power of the press. After all, it speaks with a thousand voices, in constant dissonance.

I don't think anyone in the media thinks strategically about society.

Which suggests something about media and war: it's not just that events happen and the media documents and presents them. There is a third element: what the public is ready to accept, what the public wants to know.