Tom Scholz Quotes

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

Vigorous independent and critical media are indispensable in a democracy.

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

One of the unsung freedoms that go with a free press is the freedom not to read it.

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

A free press can of course be good or bad, but most certainly, without freedom it will never be anything but bad.

Freedom of the press and a free society either prosper together or perish together.

What is the liberty of the press? Who can give it any definition that would not leave the utmost latitude for evasion …. Its [the press's] security … must altogether depend on public opinion.

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

The press in India, I believe, is more free, and happily so, than perhaps media anywhere in the world. Right? Which is a good thing.

Freedom of the press underpins free societies around the world.

It should be clear by now that my focus here is not freedom of speech or the press. This freedom is all too often an exaggeration. At the very least, blind references to freedom of speech or the press serve as a distraction from the critical examination of other communications policies.

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.

Democracies succeed or fail based on their journalism.

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

In order to enjoy the inestimable benefits that the liberty of the press ensures, it is necessary to submit to the inevitable evils it creates

A free press may be good or bad, but without freedom a press can only be bad.

We must have a free press. If we are to maintain democracxy as we know it, we must have a free and adversarial press.... That's how dictoators get power [by intimidating, restriciting and censoring the press.]

The government that has imprisoned more journalists than any other in the world was democratically elected.

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.

Democratic societies need a strong media, and WikiLeaks is part of that media.

There is nothing more important to a democracy than an active and engaged press.

Press freedom is not just about journalists, right? It's not just about us, it's not just about me, it's not just about Rappler. Press freedom is... the foundation of every single right of every single Filipino to the truth, so that we can hold the powerful to account.

Without a free press there can be no free society. That is axiomatic. However, freedom of the press is not an end in itself but a means to the end of a free society. The scope and nature of the constitutional guarantee of the freedom of the press are to be viewed and applied in that light.