Mark Twain Quotes

In America , the media lives in a vacuum where they are able to not just criticize; they're able to destroy.

We do not need a censorship of the press. We have a censorship by the press.

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

Every journalist who is not too stupid or too full of himself to notice what is going on knows that what he does is morally indefensible. He is a kind of confidence man, preying on people's vanity, ignorance or loneliness, gaining their trust and betraying them without remorse.

To say that the newspaper press represents public opinion is to administer insult to intelligent men. It is the property of speculators, political leaders, large contractors and railway directors.

You hope the American people are fair. We recognize journalists have to kill somebody each week.

I am by no means alone within the family or the company in being ashamed and sickened by Roger Ailes’s horrendous and sustained disregard of the journalistic standards that News Corporation, its founder and every other global media business aspires to.

We need ethical journalism. There is also capacity limitations in journalism.

People are just passively accepting what you tell them, so if you are on TV there is that greater responsibility to be true.

the 'public' - a term often used in America to indicate the great metropolitan newspapers.

A big part of my book deals with the caliber of journalism. Our journalism in general is deplorable, and on elections in particular it's very ineffectual. There are a lot of problems, a lot of them having to do with to problems within the professional code of journalism, which defines its role as the regurgitation of what people in power say. Another big problem is that we allow people with money to basically buy what's talked about in campaigns through running TV ads.

The media is the right arm of anarchy.

The media is something that affects a lot of people, so you're constantly trying to strike a balance between respecting something and not caring about it.

I treasure the fact there's media freedom, but with that goes responsibility. I think that there should be a self-regulatory organization and that they should start to think about standards. Because I think a lot of people say, "I don't know how to read what is true versus somebody else's interpretation."

When the dominant media invites the torturers on their programs to defend the nature of torture and then label that as "just another position," these media apparatuses have really sunken into hell. They've become something really vile and despicable. And yet they do it with a smile.

There's a fine line between balanced journalism and trial by television.

At no time in our lives has the media ever acknowledged they were wrong about anybody. They have never felt the need to apologize for getting something terribly wrong. They have never, after trying to character assassinate people, apologized for doing it when shown they're wrong.

Journalists do not live by words alone, although sometimes they have to eat them.

With a free press comes a responsibility.

I feel much more strongly about the abdication of responsibility by the media than by political advocates. They're representing a constituency.

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

If you are a member of the media, you belong to the public. You've made that Faustian bargain with your public. Take me – all of me – I'm yours.

The media owes the responsibility to constantly tell the public the truth.

The photographer must bear the responsibility for his work and its effect …[for] photographic journalism, because of its tremendous audience reached by publications using it, has more influence on public thinking than any other branch of photography.

The press has become the greatest power within the Western countries, exceeding that of the legislature, the executive, and the judiciary. Yet one would like to ask: According to what law has it been elected and to whom is it responsible? In the Communist East, a journalist is frankly appointed as a state official. But who has voted Western journalists into their positions of power, for how long a time, and with what prerogatives?