Michelle Beadle Quotes

I'm very much in support of the free press, but the free press ought to be educational and informative. And I believe they have fallen down recently on that.

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.

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

I was for many years myself a journalist and it is not appropriate to say a programme should not be broadcast.

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

The press is a watchdog. Not an attack dog. Not a lapdog. A watchdog. Now, a watchdog can't be right all the time. He doesn't bark only when he sees or smells something that's dangerous. A good watchdog barks at things that are suspicious.

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.

American newspapers are so filthy and bestial that no honest man would admit one into his house for a water-closet doormat.

I loathe and despise the media in a way I did not think possible.

We need ethical journalism. There is also capacity limitations in journalism.

We talk about a free press. These people hide, they make a lot of money off the media. They hide behind the slogans of free press, and then they can come out with crap like that. It's just garbage. It's insulting to the readers.

It's unfortunate, I've been the victim of some Australian press.

There aren't enough good journalists. There are too many who really weren't groomed to be reporters and, as a result, some of the reporting is shallow.

Given what the media have put the country through this past decade, it must come as a surprise to most Americans that the press has a code of ethics.

A free press needs to be a respected press.

Every journalist who is not too stupid or too full of himself to notice what is going on knows that what he does is morally indefensible.

You can criticize any news staff in some ways, but the one thing that you couldn't call the Village Voice staff was a staff of stenographers, taking notes from public figures and just passing them on.

I think if you look at the failure of journalism in the modern age, then I don't want to be called a journalist.

Media is just a word that has come to mean bad journalism.

God, newspapers have been making up stories forever. This kind of trifling and fooling around is not a function of the New Journalism.

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

The essence of American journalism is vulgarity divested of truth.

While they shriek for "freedom of the press" when there is no slightest threat to that freedom, they deny to citizens that freedom from the press to which the decencies of life entitle them. They misrepresent, they distort, they color, they blackguard, they lie.

I deplore with you, the putrid state into which our newspapers have passed, and the malignity, the vulgarity, and mendacious spirit of those who write for them.... As vehicles of information, and a curb on our functionaries, they have rendered themselves useless, by forfeiting all title to belief.

The most sacred cow of the press is the press itself