Rupert Murdoch Quotes

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

I don't love the media. I'm part of it, but you can't love a porcupine.

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

I've never been shocked by anything on television, except the news.

All the media are horrible.

I accept the media for what they are. Most of them are really good people. Some of them are scumbags.

The media. It sounds like a convention of spiritualists.

Whoever said I hated the media?

I don't watch the media that much.

I don't think about the media.

The press is like the peculiar uncle you keep in the attic - just one of those unfortunate things.

I am not here to accuse the media of anything.

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

TV serves us most usefully when presenting junk-entertainment; it serves us most ill when it co-opts serious modes of discourse - news, politics, science, education, commerce, religion.

I apologize for what the media has done.

Avoid both infatuation with or resentment of the press.

Being beyond politics, I am able to examine the role of the media without worrying about the indignant harrumphing that emanates from many journalists and commentators when you do so.

It's hard not to look at the road of the media and how the media is a big part of painting a picture for public opinion.

I'm not worried by politics: I'm worried about the media.

The media do strange things.

It is an honor to take the helm of 'Reliable Sources,' the very best of a very small number of programs about the media's role in society.

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.

The Congressional leaders set the agenda for journalism; it's not the other way around.

I have been reading the press more regularly than others over 50 years and it seems to me that there are things that have changed in the press that have changed its character.