Max Hastings Quotes

I respect the media, and in return, they respect my privacy.

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 think the media needs a little criticizing now, as it did in the '80s, don't you?

'Moral police' is my new word. I am very against the media doing moral policing, giving opinions on actor's lives. Media should not become moral police; they should just report.

We shouldn't build a technology to colour, or grey out, what people say. The media in general is balanced, although there are a lot of issues to be addressed that the media rightly pick up on.

I'm not going to make general comments about the British press.

One of the most powerful defences the media can offer for controversial actions is, of course, public interest.

I'm very much in support of the free press, but the free press ought to be educational and informative. And I believe they have fallen down recently on that.

The media does play a vital role in our democracy, and if we cannot depend on journalistic ethics, the nation's in trouble.

I love my family, I love my relatives. One special request I have is for the media back in Taiwan to kind of give them their space because they can't even go to work without being bombarded and people following them.

I am not here to accuse the media of anything.

In the U.K., journalists are a little bit more ruthless than in Denmark. I have a feeling the tabloid press in the U.K. is pretty harsh.

I apologize for what the media has done.

The most sacred cow of the press is the press itself

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

Wouldn't it be great if our national news media had standards as high as the National Football League's?

Whoever said I hated the media?

I would like Leveson Part Two. I think Leveson was a good exercise. That is why the Tories blocked it, because it was beginning to develop more accountability within the media itself.

I don't owe the media anything.

We in the media accept the responsibility of what we do.

Journalism is kind of scary and of it we should be wary.

It is completely irresponsible, if not worse, for members of the media to be calling our press secretary a liar and worse. On Twitter and Facebook and elsewhere. And in articles. That is not the way to start relationships with the press.

One of the major issues that's constantly batted around Hollywood and the media is my industry's responsibility toward the portrayal of violence. There's the irony of the films that glorify it and the individuals taking positions against it. It's a very confusing, confounding place.

I criticize the media for inventing stories.

I don't always agree with how everybody handles the media, just like they probably don't agree with how I handle the media and things that I say.