Tim Pigott-Smith Quotes

Then the album created a tremendous furor and got me kicked off Christian television for two months, and then restored after they settled down and listened to the music and realized there was nothing wrong with it.

We exercise great caution in airing an audio- or videotape released by a terrorist organization holding a hostage. These are decisions made by CNN's editorial staff and not by any third party.

I avoid all the language and nudity and violence and everything. I have enough of that at home.

Although I may find the type of programming seen during the 2004 Super Bowl and the 2003 Golden Globe Awards disgusting and disturbing, we must always work hard to defend the cherished freedoms so clearly outlined in our Constitution, including a healthy and free press.

In terms of language, yeah we get bleeped and blurred and things, but in terms of content, I would probably say we're getting away with more here than we could get away with in Britain. And that surprised us so much!

The only place we were really told to tone it down - where other people would use the word censorship, but I wouldn't - was when we did MTV right after the Beavis and Butt-head thing.

I don't think there's one thing I've ever said on the radio that would have been found indecent or obscene.

We have got to make sure there is proper independent scrutiny and accountability for people in the press, just as there should be in any other industry where things go wrong. But let's not try and think it is for politicians or governments to tell people what they stick in newspapers. That is deeply illiberal.

There is a fine line between censorship and good taste and moral responsibility.

Congress has repeatedly passed laws and otherwise raised a ruckus about indecent language on the broadcast airwaves used for radio and television.

I was for many years myself a journalist and it is not appropriate to say a programme should not be broadcast.

In the United States, viewers don't get to see a lot of things we can show in other countries. We didn't get to show our naked Twister game from Wild On Jamaica, but we definitely filmed it.

This country was founded on a core set of family values. These values should not be discouraged and blatantly undermined by the airing of offensive material on broadcast television and radio.

We should assume that the end product can be switched off by any consumer who is offended or frightened by it.

The decision came from the publisher. It certainly was cleared by Chicago. And then they come out with these fine sounding words about relation to readers and their obligation. It has nothing to do with that.

They'll say, That's funny, but you can't do that on TV.

Liberty of the press is a privilege to publish, with impunity, falsehood on matters of public concern, in the honest belief it is truth, with good motives, for justifiable ends

It is a free press...There are laws to protect the freedom of the press's speech, but none that are worth anything to protect the people from the press.

We've been dealing with censorship around multimedia, about multinational companies and the content they create, for a very long time.

If we start attacking advertisers because of what somebody said - it's the wrong thing to do.

With the Internet I just love how anything goes, especially in the light of this whole Sachsgate.

I feel instead of censorship, we need to self-regulate ourselves while producing any kind of content.

Media doesn't like when other media gets their credentials pulled - that's not OK.

If the media is a farce, why should you be the only one stuck with rules and restrictions?

As editor, I think we need to act more decisively on what kind of material appears on the 'Guardian'. Those who argue that this is an affront to freedom of speech miss the point. That freedom counts for little if it is used to silence others.