Jonathan Agnew Quotes

Arab media is market driven like the American media. It does not so much shape public opinion as much as it reflects it.

Many newspapers have become players as well as spectators in the political debate.

Media creates awareness [and] ensures transparency and accountability.

I thought maybe I'd be a female sportscaster.

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.

Which suggests something about media and war: it's not just that events happen and the media documents and presents them. There is a third element: what the public is ready to accept, what the public wants to know.

The sports space is so full of opinion that you aren't hearing from the athletes just speaking for themselves. We are such a Twitter-oriented society with radio talk shows, TV talk shows and social media - what you are missing is the authentic, unfiltered aspect of who these people are.

Games have a huge impact on our society because the media plays a role in helping to shape our attitudes. So it's not just fantasy.

Talk radio has almost ruined the sports fan.

The media doesn't create narratives, really. They're not that powerful. What they do is they tap into narratives that are already bubbling amongst their viewership or readership.

If you interviewed 1,000 politicians and asked about whether the media's too soft or too hard, about 999 would say too hard.

The press has a tendency to focus on what politicians disagree on.

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

The newspapers, magazines and other journals of the country, it is safe to say, have shed and continue to shed, more light on the public and business affairs of, the nation than any other instrumentality of public; and since informed public opinion is the most potent of all restraints upon misgovernment, the suppression or abridgment of the publicity afforded by a free press cannot be regarded otherwise than with grave concern.

Th' newspaper does ivrything f'r us. It runs th' polis foorce an' th' banks, commands th' milishy, conthrols th' ligislachure, baptizes th' young, marries th' foolish, comforts th' afflicted, afflicts th' comfortable, buries th' dead an' roasts thim aftherward.

The media has become a major player in the conduct of diplomacy.

The media can act like a barrier. We often are communicating with people through the media and not via the media.

Burke said there were three estates in Parliament; but in the reporter's gallery yonder, there sat a fourth estate more important far than they all.

The media are much better at keeping politicians honest and accountable. They are not willing to look the other way as they sometimes have in the past.

It’s always a danger when an institution like the press becomes disconnected from the people.

The media can make or break an administration.

Television is the medium through which society communicates its democratic values.

Acting upon everybody for 30 minutes in 24 hours, the press is asked to create a mystical force called Public Opinion that will take up the slack in public institutions. The press has often mistakenly pretended that it could do just that.

Many a public figure has come to imitate the journalism which describes him.

The media can be a megaphone for terrorists to communicate their message. The media should put things in perspective and context and not instinctively do what the terrorists want the media to do.