Margarita Simonyan Quotes

I think democracy's undermined when those who own newspapers fill them with trivia rather than real issues.

Advertisements contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper.

The press ... is but the servant of human intellect and its ministry is for good or evil, according to the character of those who direct it. The press is a mill that grinds all that is put into its hopper. Fill the hopper with poisoned grain and it will grind it to meal, but there is death in the bread.

Once you give a politician five minutes of free airtime, he’s going to go somewhere else and spend the money he saved at your station.

The nation whose population depends on the explosively compressed headline service of television news can expect to be exploited by the demagogues and dictators who prey upon the semi-informed.

The journalistic traits that are valued on TV and radio talk shows are destructive to democracy.

...the liberty of the Press is called the Palladium of Freedom, which means, in these days, the liberty of being deceived, swindled, and humbugged by the Press and paying hugely for the deception.

Today the greatest evil—and therefore the most immediate—is the press.

We suffer quite as much from exaggerated, hysterical, and untruthful statements in the press as from any wrongdoing by businessmen or politicians.

The greatest power of the mass media is the power to ignore. The worst thing about this power is that you may not even know you're using it.

I think the media spends a lot of time fooling itself.

News has become entertainment. Once that happens, a whole series of horrific events start to happen, whether it's the lack of dissemination of something that can inform you or something that actually negatively impacts society.

As the mainstream media has become increasingly dependent on advertising revenues for support, it has become an anti-democratic force in society.

It is precisely the purpose of the public opinion generated by the press to make the public incapable of judging, to insinuate into it the attitude of someone irresponsible, uninformed.

News represents another form of advertising, not liberal propaganda.

Power in America today is control of the means of communication.

... infiltrate and neutralize the mainstream American media.

News and entertainment are getting dangerously intertwined.

The expressions of newspapers, like those of orators, could not be accepted without allowance, for they aimed at producing some desired effect, and said either more or less than the truth.

The news media more and more considered the politicians to be props in their entertainment shows.

The political misrepresentation of facts is one of the incidents of a free press in every free country.

The presentation of an issue can no longer be controlled.

Of all newspaper presses, I never heard anyone deny that the American is the worst.... [N]othing is easier than to make the people know only one side of a question; few things are easier than to keep them altogether from the knowledge of any particular affair; and, worse than all, on them [the American people] may easily be practiced the discovery that lies may work their intended effect, before the truth can overtake them. It is hard to tell which is worse; the wide diffusion of things that are not true or the suppression of things that are.

Those villainous reporters [Stephen] Douglas has with him.

The Arab Press is a deeply distorted lens.