Taylor Sheridan Quotes

The media doesn't need a conscience; people need consciences.

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

I am not here to accuse the media of anything.

I apologize for what the media has done.

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

I respect the media, and in return, they respect my privacy.

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

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.

All the media are horrible.

One of the most powerful defences the media can offer for controversial actions is, of course, public interest.

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

The chief danger which threatens the influence and honor of the press is the tendency of its liberty to degenerate into license.

The media is like the terrain and weather. It is a fact; it's nothing you can change. You have to learn to deal with it. And it isn't bad or good, it's just there. I don't think we should put limits on the press, unless it's for security reasons or for reasons of risk in the case of an operation. We value freedom of the press. It's something we are fighting for. It's part of the constitutional rights that we swear our allegiance to. We just have to accept it and learn to deal with it in a right way, and give and take.

The press has become the greatest power within the Western countries, more powerful than the legislature, the executive and the judiciary. One would then like to ask: by what law has it been elected and to whom is it responsible?

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

Whoever said I hated the media?

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

I don't owe the media anything.

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

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

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

Kids shouldn't see all the violence they do these days. But the industry just doesn't care.

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.

Take responsibility about what you have on your TV, and about what you are out there supporting.

In the old days, the media is who held people accountable when they lied in politics. That isn't happening anymore.