Umberto Eco Quotes

I apologize for what the media has done.

I think the media is a real demon.

I am not here to accuse the media of anything.

The Big-Media collective, however, is slow, stupid and shackled by ideology. Reality must bite them before they’ll recognize it, much less report it.

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

Television is democracy at its ugliest.

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

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

The media cause more problems than they do good.

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 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.

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.

I definitely have a real frustration with the media, especially having dealt with them as an agent.

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 biased left-wing media does what it wants. That's not going to define me or hamper me.

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.

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

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.

Even when I started in 1970, I knew that television was having a negative effect on our society.

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

I don't read the press, I don't watch endless music TV.

All the media are horrible.

Don't hate the media, become the media.