Jim Walton Quotes

Although I may find the type of programming seen during the 2004 Super Bowl and the 2003 Golden Globe Awards disgusting and disturbing, we must always work hard to defend the cherished freedoms so clearly outlined in our Constitution, including a healthy and free press.

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 was for many years myself a journalist and it is not appropriate to say a programme should not be broadcast.

I don't think there will ever be a permanent truce, but I believe the media needs to be more careful and be willing to count to 10 before rushing on the air or into print.

I happen to believe that any legitimate news organization in the world would do that interview. And if the United States is going to be a proponent of a free press, it has to walk the walk.

The press are scum.

We need ethical journalism. There is also capacity limitations in journalism.

If it's something that you are opposed to or you don't want your children or family to see, then do not watch it, and the market can send a message.

Journalists play God when they decide for their readers when to hide information from them. Frequently, those choices are unavoidable.

As editor, I think we need to act more decisively on what kind of material appears on the 'Guardian'. Those who argue that this is an affront to freedom of speech miss the point. That freedom counts for little if it is used to silence others.

For better or worse, editing is what editors are for; and editing is selection and choice of material. That editors newspaper or broadcast can and do abuse this power is beyond doubt, but that is no reason to deny the discretion Congress provided.

For the sake of public discourse, for the demands of the free market, and for the value we place in citizen advocacy, Rush Limbaugh must go.

The newspapers turn a blind eye to how they get their material as long as they have great photographs.

The decision came from the publisher. It certainly was cleared by Chicago. And then they come out with these fine sounding words about relation to readers and their obligation. It has nothing to do with that.

The media doesn't need a conscience; people need consciences.

Even a very brief tape-delay introduces a form of censorship into the broadcast - not direct governmental control, but it means that a network representative is in effect guessing at what a government might tolerate, which can be even worse.

We need to police ourselves in the media.

In a day when broadcasters and publishers have rather free access into our homes, we must seek clean, uplifting entertainment, whether on television, videos, movies, magazines, books, and other printed material. We should be very selective and choose only those things that meet the test of being virtuous, lovely, of good report, or praiseworthy.

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

We need to take on Hollywood. They are poisoning the minds of our kids.

I apologize for what the media has done.

The decision of what, when, and how to publish is for editors, not judges.

American newspapers are so filthy and bestial that no honest man would admit one into his house for a water-closet doormat.

The press must be free; it has always been so and much evil has been corrected by it. If Government finds itself annoyed by it, let it examine its own conduct and it will find the cause.

Television should be regulated like a toaster.