Roger Mudd Quotes

The front pages of The New York Times, The Washington Post, and the Los Angeles Times are very important in shaping what other people think. They're like writing a memo to the White House.

The power is to set the agenda. What we print and what we don't print matter a lot.

Then there is the newspaper press, that huge engine for making the political test final.

Many newspapers have become players as well as spectators in the political debate.

Whatever may be said about the power of the press, it is undeniable that it can set the entire public thinking and talking about any topic ...

The New York Times does an unbelievable amount of damage because every day television and radio stations along with the rest of media take their lead on the way the news should be presented along with what actually is the news.

The press doesn't just cover presidential campaigns, they influence them by making arbitrary decisions about who is 'top tier' and merits coverage.

How united would the United States be without its newspapers?

What matters to the press matters perforce to politicians.

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.

The press tends to reflect what's important to the country.

Journalism is now not only reflecting what is happening, it is affecting what is happening. Governments all over the world watch CNN.

The press has, at present, a great influence over public questions; and by far the greater and more influential part of it is engaged on the side of the capitalist.

The primary purpose of the media is to mobilize support for the controlling interests.

The Press has not only a great influence over our manners and morals, but contributes largely to our pleasures.

The press must grow day in and day out — it is our Party's sharpest and most powerful weapon.

Theodore Roosevelt owes more to newspapers than any other man of his time, or possibly of any other time.

The media have such a strong hand in deciding what people's perceptions are. They decide what the agenda is going to be, what the issues are.

The job of the press is to encourage debate, not to supply the public with information.

The Congressional leaders set the agenda for journalism; it's not the other way around.

Television is democracy at its ugliest.

I think the press has an interest in communicating to its viewers or readers, and their viewers or readers drive profit for those news organizations, so I think those news organizations have a certain bias toward their own readers. Yeah, I think they are a special interest. Of course they are.

If you look up the definition of news in the dictionary, it isn't what you watch on TV.

Well I think the media has a very powerful influence on almost anything and everything we do because the general public gets their perception of what is going on in things they don't have immediate access to from what they get through the media.

I think I could argue that the press has more impact on politics than corporations.