Jeb Stuart Magruder Quotes

“If the United States…can pass laws to block media cross ownership within one market to protect the diversity of voices, then we in Canada must ask ourselves why we do not seem to attach the same importance to that important principle.

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.

Arab media is market driven like the American media. It does not so much shape public opinion as much as it reflects it.

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

The media have disproportionate control of the information in our society.

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 editorial policies of the state newspapers and the state broadcaster has remained partisan and unreformed, and the media field remains dominated by the same partisan state players.

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.

I have tried to write about this matter without any improper bias, but of course we are all cowards about newspapers who tyrannize over us all.

All over the world, wherever there are capitalists, freedom of the press means freedom to buy up newspapers, to buy writers, to bribe, buy and fake “public opinion” for the benefit of the bourgeoisie.

The media is too concentrated, too few people own too much. There's really five companies that control 90 percent of what we read, see and hear. It's not healthy.

Freedom of the press is guaranteed only to those who own one.

I think it is absolutely essential in a democracy to have competition in the media, a lot of competition, and we seem to be moving away from that.

Almost anything is better than three network TV outlets completely controlling the national discourse with their nightly broadcasts. We've moved a long way from that, and that's important.

Common sense tells us that this explosion of media sources should eliminate any concern over a lack of diversity of views in the marketplace and competition.

... infiltrate and neutralize the mainstream American media.

The press has a tendency to focus on what politicians disagree on.

The media are not progressive enough to let us govern. 24/7 news is the worst thing that has happened to the ability to govern.

I respect the press. The press and the media are a very useful watchdog to check the power of the government.

The United States, along with other major democracies, is moving swiftly toward media control by a handful of gigantic multi-national corporations.

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

A free press can of course be good or bad, but most certainly, without freedom it will never be anything but bad.

The press, like fire, is an excellent servant, but a terrible master.

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

Editors must control broadcasts to prevent information, even accurate, from damaging or alarming the population by its form, presentation or timing.