Julian Assange Quotes

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

The Times has much less power than you think. I believe we attribute power to the media generally that it simply doesn't have. It's very convenient to blame the media, the same way we blame television for everything that's going wrong in society.

I am not here to accuse the media of anything.

I apologize for what the media has done.

The great tension in media has always been that freedom and quality are conflicting goals.

Television is democracy at its ugliest.

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

If there is a silver lining in the action of MSNBC against Keith Olbermann, it is that people will now pay more attention to the political role of corporate media in America.

The major networks, the cable networks, they're being prosecutors. They're judges and jurors and executioners. Well, c'mon, that's ridiculous. But they're doing it.

I think the media needs a little criticizing now, as it did in the '80s, don't you?

I think the media is a real demon.

My level of intervention in the press, trying to control stories, is zero. Subzero.

I take a grave view of the press. It is the weak slat under the bed of democracy.

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.

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

There is a power in our land, irresponsible, corrupt and malicious—‘the press,’ which has created the intense feelings of hostility that has arrayed the two parts of the country against each other, which must be curbed and brought within the just limits of reason and law, before we can have peace in America. We can deal with armies who have a visible and tangible existence, but it will require tact and skill and courage to clip the wings of this public enemy.

Avoid both infatuation with or resentment of the press.

The fact that there aren't more restrictions on the media is disgraceful.

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

Once upon a time there were mass media, and they were wicked, of course, and there was a guilty party. Then there were the virtuous voices that accused the criminals. And Art (ah, what luck!) offered alternatives, for those who were not prisoners to the mass media.

The U.S. corporate media, otherwise known as the "free press," is that hollow pillar on which contemporary American democracy rests.

I don't know how you can do it, if you don't recognition the media as a power center in America.

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

I can assure you that I have never used my media companies for propaganda, and I will never do so.

We in the press, by our power, can actually undermine leadership.