G. Gordon Liddy Quotes

My father left me with a clear sense that the media was something different.

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

There is a power in our land, irresponsible, corrupt and malicious—‘the press,’ which has created the intense feelings of hostility that has arrayed the two parts of the country against each other, which must be curbed and brought within the just limits of reason and law, before we can have peace in America. We can deal with armies who have a visible and tangible existence, but it will require tact and skill and courage to clip the wings of this public enemy.

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

Journalism: A profession whose business is to explain to others what it personally does not understand.

The mainstream press and television do a very soft job of covering the press, either as corporate entities or as news organizations.

I have been reading the press more regularly than others over 50 years and it seems to me that there are things that have changed in the press that have changed its character.

Given what the media have put the country through this past decade, it must come as a surprise to most Americans that the press has a code of ethics.

I used to think the press was a necessary evil and now I don't think it is. I think it's something you choose.

I mean the idea of this is that it's a good thing for the public to hear interviews like this and that there will be an inevitable amount of fewer interviews if people that the press talks to wind up thinking, well, it's not really a CBS correspondent.

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.

There is much to be said in favour of modern journalism. By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.

How united would the United States be without its newspapers?

If this newspaper pestilence shall continue for fifty years more, the intelligence of our people will be destroyed.... Hold fast and zealously, therefore, to the slogan I now ask you to make your own: hatred and contempt, death and destruction, of the press of today.

It’s a lot easier and cheaper to have thumbsuckers and pundits on television than it is to have reporters and news bureaus around the world.

The force of the newspaper is the greatest force in civilization.... [Newspapers] declare wars ... make and unmake statesmen.

I accept the media for what they are. Most of them are really good people. Some of them are scumbags.

I think in many aspects the press does amazing things and helps a lot of people.

I am interested in the press and what they do.

I have no interest in interfering or involving myself in journalistic integrity or process.

The job of the press is to defend their institution, hold the government accountable and freely report and gather information.

I have never quite grasped the worry about the power of the press. After all, it speaks with a thousand voices, in constant dissonance.

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

Publishing is a business, but journalism never was and is not essentially a business. Nor is it a profession.

I've always been a big consumer of American journalism over the years and had an interest in the history of it and of the press in America; how it has changed.