Mark Fowler Quotes

The Central Propaganda Department is the highest-ranking censorship agency in China. And it has control over everything from the appointment of newspaper editors to university professors to the way that films are cut and distributed.

The censorship is such on television in the U.S. that films like mine don't stand a chance.

If you don't think a television news show represents the truth, you can turn off your TV. If you don't think a magazine represents the truth, you can cancel your subscription. You have the right to expose yourself to whatever information you want. But to have the government prescribing what the truth is or limiting the information available for the citizen is contrary to the 1st Amendment.

I see the FCC responding to an already repressive society and raw censorship is the result.

Whether it's Baidu or Chinese versions of YouTube or Sina or Sohu, Chinese Internet sites are getting daily directives from the government telling them what kinds of content they cannot allow on their site and what they need to delete.

I think if you open the door to government control of television, then you let in a host of questions about rights.

There's hardly any governmental censorship in Korea.

I find it very offensive when the government tells me what I can and cannot watch. Censor yourself.

I believe in censorship. I made a fortune out of it.

A license permits broadcasting, but the licensee has no constitutional right to be the one who holds the license or to monopolize a radio frequency to the exclusion of his fellow citizens. There is nothing in the First Amendment which prevents the government from requiring a licensee to share his frequency with others.... There is no sanctuary in the First Amendment for unlimited private censorship operating in a medium not open to all.... It is the right of the viewers and listeners, not the right of the broadcasters, which is paramount.... It is the purpose of the First Amendment to preserve an uninhibited marketplace of ideas in which truth will ultimately prevail, rather than to countenance monopolization of that market, whether it be by the government itself or a private licensee. It is the right of the public to receive suitable access to social, political, esthetic, moral, and other ideas and experiences which is crucial here. That right may not constitutionally be abridged either by Congress or by the FCC.

Give people control of the media and they will use it. Don’t give them control and you will lose it.

The newspapers of your country seem to be more powerful than the government.

The White House expansion to control the entire corpus of the News was the direct result of television.

For thirty years the press has ceased to exist in Turkey. There are indeed newspapers, many of them even, but the scissors of censorship cut them in so emasculating a manner that they no longer have any potency. If I dare, I would call them gelded newspapers or rather, to keep the local color, eunuchs.

The hand that rules the press, the radio, the screen, and the far spread magazine, rules the country.

There is not room in the broadcast band for every school of thought, religious, political, social, and economic, each to have its separate broadcasting station, its mouthpiece in the ether.

A free press may be good or bad, but without freedom a press can only be bad.

The fact that there aren't more restrictions on the media is disgraceful.

The FCC, under my leadership, will stand for the First Amendment.

Television is democracy at its ugliest.

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!

When someone has to intervene to defend the liberty of the press, that society is sick.

One thing about television in Britain is that they're so scared about complaints. It curbs a lot of drama.

You have to be down here in the States to realize just how tightly controlled the corporate media is and how much they practise Soviet-style censorship through creative omission.

I'm not a big fan of regulation: anyone who likes freedom of the press can't be.