Davey Sakala Quotes

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

I wouldn't agree with some of the things that the press writes about and that's all I have to say about that.

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 used to think the press was a necessary evil and now I don't think it is. I think it's something you choose.

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

I don't think that the press in 2004 was any more unfair to Bush than they were to Kerry.

I am not here to accuse the media of anything.

I cover media people the way they cover politicians.

I respect the press. The press and the media are a very useful watchdog to check the power of the government.

I apologize for what the media has done.

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

I am one of the few men in public life who doesn't complain much about his treatment as the hands of the press. The press takes me to task every once in a while, but they have always been very kind, not attributing my hypocrisy to bad motives. They have always attributed it to a lack of mental capacity.

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

To say that the newspaper press represents public opinion is to administer insult to intelligent men. It is the property of speculators, political leaders, large contractors and railway directors.

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.

Whoever said I hated the media?

We call media out that hasn't played and have crazy opinions.

It'd be nice to say that American media doesn't hate this country.

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

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

The mainstream press and television do a very soft job of covering the press, either as corporate entities or as news organizations.

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.