Norman Lear Quotes

Independent media can go to where the silence is and break the sound barrier, doing what the corporate networks refuse to do.

A free and truly independent press - fiercely independent when necessary - is the red beating heart of freedom and democracy.

While mainstream media is led by profit, ratings and popularist culture and filtered by the current political climate, Alternative Media is lead solely by the convictions of the campaign and film maker.

I just wish there was more media that was trailblazing and independent. And, this to me is a big danger right now in this set up is you've got these corporations, like the New York Times, and Amazon now with the Washington Post, and Time-Warner, and all of them seem to be the same! This is what's frightening!

So this is all part of a free society. People are entitled to hold whatever view they want, and the media can report things how they wish.

When freedom of the press is threatened, the United States should be leading efforts to protect it.

As far as the media is concerned, I wouldn't shoot anything down.

I think the idea of creating a television news source that is not beholden to corporate interests is nirvana.

Most people see through these issues but the corporate media doesn't reflect these sentiments.

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.

I can only assume that your editorial writer tripped over the First Amendment and thought it was the office cat.

We believe that the remedy to any harm resulting from press freedom lies in press freedom itself.

Pakistan is an anomaly in the Islamic world, in the sense that there is a free press, which is amazing. I can't think of another Islamic country where the press is so free….one cannot claim that there is no fear. There is fear, but more and more people are saying what they want to say

A free press is the cornerstone of democracy; there is no question about that.

You can't have a free democracy if you don't have a free media that can provide vital and independent information to the people.

Qatar-based 'Al-Jazeera,' the most important news channel in the Arab world, was harshly criticized by high U.S. officials for having 'emphasized civilian casualties' during the destruction of Falluja. The problem of independent media was later resolved when the channel was kicked out of Iraq in preparation for free elections.

In the corporate media, there is almost no criticism of corporations or American empire.

The alternative to the corporate media is a renaissance of citizen journalism emerging around world - exploring the different avenues that do exist, like podcasts, to tell whatever story you want to tell.

In the Netherlands, the press writes what they want.

I'm tired of advertisers being the gatekeepers of what is and is not appropriate on news shows.

I've blogged since 2001 and was first attracted to the medium by its wild-west aesthetic, if simply telling the truth that corporate media wasn't telling could be so rebellious as to be defined as 'wild west.'

A louder government with less journalism does not enrich our democratic process.

Nobody is going to tell Ed Schultz what to say.

Any restriction of press freedom is unacceptable.