Will Poulter Quotes

My level of intervention in the press, trying to control stories, is zero. Subzero.

As far as the media is concerned, I wouldn't shoot anything down.

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

Whoever said I hated the media?

I'm not worried by politics: I'm worried about the media.

When you read Western press, you probably get a feeling that all Russian press is censored, there's no freedom at all, we can't say whatever, which is absolutely, absolutely, completely untrue.

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

You know, the media and politicians are always gonna be in a bit of tension with one another and probably most of the time that's healthy and indeed even creative. But it's where - it's really when news organisations are used as kind of instruments of politics that it gets tricky.

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

All the media are horrible.

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

The media bring our wars home, but only rarely have they been able to do it in complete freedom.

I am not here to accuse the media of anything.

We shouldn't build a technology to colour, or grey out, what people say. The media in general is balanced, although there are a lot of issues to be addressed that the media rightly pick up on.

It is stupid on my part to think of banning the media.

We need to take on Hollywood. They are poisoning the minds of our kids.

I apologize for what the media has done.

The media is like the terrain and weather. It is a fact; it's nothing you can change. You have to learn to deal with it. And it isn't bad or good, it's just there. I don't think we should put limits on the press, unless it's for security reasons or for reasons of risk in the case of an operation. We value freedom of the press. It's something we are fighting for. It's part of the constitutional rights that we swear our allegiance to. We just have to accept it and learn to deal with it in a right way, and give and take.

Freedom of the press, printing, publication and mass media shall be guaranteed. Censorship on newspapers is forbidden as well as notifying, suspending or cancelling them by administrative methods. In a state of emergency or in time of war a limited censorship may be imposed on the newspapers, publications and mass media in matters related to public safety or purposes of national security in accordance with the law.

In order to enjoy the inestimable benefits that the liberty of the press ensures, it is necessary to submit to the inevitable evils it creates

In spite of your “liberty of the press”, at a hint from your government your whole national press becomes unanimous on questions outside domestic politics.

I don't owe the media anything.

When I was at MSNBC, I had issues with the Obama administration. I got told by the person who runs MSNBC... that Washington was not happy with my tone.

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

The media can allege corruption, but if I do the same against the media, I am gagging freedom of expression.