Curt Weldon Quotes

It is the role of good journalism to take on powerful abusers, and when powerful abusers are taken on, there's always a bad reaction. So we see that controversy, and we believe that is a good thing to engage in.

The media has become more forceful, has begun to recognize its traditional historic role and act on it, and truth is infectious.

The British press are a group of unremitting scumbags. And sometimes they use that scumbaggery to good ends, and often not.

Journalism is the protection between people and any sort of totalitarian rule. That's why my hero, admittedly a flawed one, is a journalist.

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

If there is a silver lining in the action of MSNBC against Keith Olbermann, it is that people will now pay more attention to the political role of corporate media in America.

Certain media-related developments in the country are raising questions regarding its objectivity and credibility. Paid news and the declining roles of the editors and their editorial freedom is posing a major threat to the Indian media.

Well, thank God for a media that will ask questions.

In the U.K., journalists are a little bit more ruthless than in Denmark. I have a feeling the tabloid press in the U.K. is pretty harsh.

The truth is, I don't have any problem with journalists - I count some of them as friends - also some of my heroes are journalists, I'm a big fan of Robert Fisk - great people or crazy people who are prepared to stand up for what's right.

Media is just a word that has come to mean bad journalism.

Notwithstanding the likes of 'All the President's Men' in the 1970s or HBO's recent 'The Newsroom,' film and TV have always loved to hate the press.

I happen to believe that any legitimate news organization in the world would do that interview. And if the United States is going to be a proponent of a free press, it has to walk the walk.

The press, that distinguished appendage of public liberty … has been invariably prostituted …

Journalism is a giant catapult set in motion by pygmy hatreds.

The concept that the press is an organ of government policy dies hard.

The press are scum.

Journalists follow authority as sharks follow a liner, dining on the scraps that are thrown overboard.

Whoever said I hated the media?

I was a political journalist for a long time. I wrote a book about Putin. I made all kinds of trouble.

The U.S. corporate media, otherwise known as the "free press," is that hollow pillar on which contemporary American democracy rests.

Media is a big problem around the world, it's powerful and can abuse its power.

We talk about a free press. These people hide, they make a lot of money off the media. They hide behind the slogans of free press, and then they can come out with crap like that. It's just garbage. It's insulting to the readers.

Some of the press who speak loudly about the freedom of the press are themselves the enemies of freedom. Countless people dare not say a thing because they know it will be picked up and made a song of by the press. That limits freedom.

It's been said that no man is a hero to a newspaperman, and I spent too many years as an ink-stained wretch.