Ann Macbeth Quotes

A functional media is as important to democratic freedom as voting.

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.

Britain is a very small country with a very large press.

It's not about 'NBC is evil.' It's about that media structure - CBS, ABC, CNN, even some of the smaller operations are now multinationals, with these extraordinarily diverse holdings.

I think if you open the door to government control of television, then you let in a host of questions about rights.

Our free enterprise system of disseminating information is collectively referred to as The Media. But there is no collective.

We need a free media, not just freedom of speech.

We spend too much time fretting over the way the industry produces programming, and too little worrying about the way the public consumes it.

Broadcasting is really too important to be left to the broadcasters.

Freedom of the press is not an end in itself but a means to the end of achieving a free society.

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.

Diversity in media is something that is intrinsic to a democratic society. We do not want the whole media owned by one person.

The free market allowed shock jocks to flourish, and millions of listeners apparently enjoyed the rant.

Our founding fathers could not have foreseen that freedom of the press might eventually be threatened just as much by media consolidation as by government.

To be honest with you, I worry about concentration of ownership in media, where you have a handful of media conglomerates largely controlling what we see, hear and read.

Vigorous independent and critical media are indispensable in a democracy.

Radio in England is nonexistent. It's very bad English use of a media system, typically English use.

The environment doesn't change that radically. You are still going to go home at night and NBC is going to be there, ABC and CBS will still be there.

The BBC is the greatest broadcaster in the world. It's the standard that everyone measures themselves against. If we lose the BBC, it won't be quite as bad as losing the royal family, but an integral part of this country will have gone. But then, I'm an old guy.

The perception of broadcasters as community trustees should be replaced by a view of broadcasters as marketplace participants.

Broadcasting is really too important to be left to the broadcasters and somehow we must find some new way of using radio and television to allow us to talk to each other.

Junk journalism is the evidence of a society that has got at least one thing right, that there should be nobody with the power to dictate where responsible journalism begins

We need a free press. We must have it. It's vital.

The Federal Communications Commission needs to listen and serve the American people, not special interests.

Point-blank, there is not enough diversity in media.