John Morley Quotes

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

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.

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 gallery in which the reporters sit has become a fourth estate of the realm.

The newspapers, magazines and other journals of the country, it is safe to say, have shed and continue to shed, more light on the public and business affairs of, the nation than any other instrumentality of public; and since informed public opinion is the most potent of all restraints upon misgovernment, the suppression or abridgment of the publicity afforded by a free press cannot be regarded otherwise than with grave concern.

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.

Burke said there were three estates in Parliament; but in the reporter's gallery yonder, there sat a fourth estate more important far than they all.

NEWS is that which comes from North, East, West and South, and if it comes from only one point of the compass, then it is a class publication and not news.

The Washington Post is the first and prime source of information for the national government.... It can come very close to setting the nation's agenda.

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.

Television is democracy at its ugliest.

When you speak of the press, of course, you have to speak of different segments of the press. Reporters, straight reporters, wire services, you stick to the facts; you don't create the story, per se. You cover what is happening.

The press is our chief ideological weapon.

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

The power of the periodical press is second only to that of the people.

The media can be a really strong vehicle.

The Press, which is mostly controlled by vested interests, has an excessive influence on public opinion.

Th' newspaper does ivrything f'r us. It runs th' polis foorce an' th' banks, commands th' milishy, conthrols th' ligislachure, baptizes th' young, marries th' foolish, comforts th' afflicted, afflicts th' comfortable, buries th' dead an' roasts thim aftherward.

I run the Daily Express purely for propaganda and for no other purpose.

How united would the United States be without its newspapers?

You cannot let America’s destiny be determined by a bunch of foreign journalists.

The newspapers of your country seem to be more powerful than the government.

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

The media can make or break an administration.