Margaret Thatcher Quotes

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.

We need to police ourselves in the media.

The truth is that the more responsible the media outlet, the more responsive they are to constructive criticism.

I encourage members of the media to attempt to Be Best in their own professions.

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

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

I am not here to accuse the media of anything.

We shouldn't build a technology to colour, or grey out, what people say. The media in general is balanced, although there are a lot of issues to be addressed that the media rightly pick up on.

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

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

It is the responsibility of journalists to be ethical. Religion is a very sensitive issue, and I think no truly professional cartoonist in the world would ever try to pick on a religion like this. There’s an informal code of ethics among cartoonists in the media, and it includes two kinds of censorship: one is self-censorship; the other is professional censorship. Religion is one of the very important things that we should respect and not criticize …. We cannot tolerate any disparagement of the Prophet.

I apologize for what the media has done.

The most sacred cow of the press is the press itself

I wish the media and people that work in media would realize sometimes - and I know it doesn't pay your bills - but sometimes just sit back and think, like, 'Man, what if this was my child? And somebody was doing this to them? And they had to go through it? If somebody bashed them like this?'

One of the major issues that's constantly batted around Hollywood and the media is my industry's responsibility toward the portrayal of violence. There's the irony of the films that glorify it and the individuals taking positions against it. It's a very confusing, confounding place.

I don't owe the media anything.

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

It's essential that the media is sober and intentional in everything they do, and that's something we should all keep top of mind.

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

I treasure the fact there's media freedom, but with that goes responsibility. I think that there should be a self-regulatory organization and that they should start to think about standards. Because I think a lot of people say, "I don't know how to read what is true versus somebody else's interpretation."

The Press is such as the public demands, and the public demands bad newspapers because it has been badly educated.

You hope the American people are fair. We recognize journalists have to kill somebody each week.

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?

In a way, I think of the press as my colleagues. I don't want to throw hand grenades at people who do something that's pretty similar to what I do. But at the same time, we all need to take ourselves seriously and be responsible as professionals. And there was a collective failure in the treatment of Christopher Jefferies.

The media has not done a great job in fulfilling their role - journalism's role in a democracy is to provide information on profoundly important subjects so we're an informed citizenry.