Margarita Simonyan Quotes

Putin is going to do what Putin is going to do.

I've learned over the years to hear what Putin is railing against in his own railing way.

You turn on the TV, and you see very bland interviews. Journalists in the United States are very cozy with power, very close to those in power.

I run the Daily Express purely for propaganda and for no other purpose.

You cannot compare any leaders in our country to what Vladimir Putin has done.

Vladimir Putin has to create foreign enemies, and he also has to justify... he has to claim... he can't acknowledge that there's a legitimate protest against his authoritarian rule, so he's got to blame it on Hilary Clinton.

Trump, like Putin, has a demonstrably thin skin and short temper when it comes to being criticized by journalists.

I really can't abide conspiracy theories, because I believe that everything in the world stems from idiocy and incompetence. That's certainly true of most of what's happened in Russia under Putin.

We define journalism in America as the business and practice of presenting the news of the day in the interest of economic privilege.

I think Donald Trump thinks of Putin as being a strong person, and I think he thinks of himself as being a very strong person. But I don't think in any way that he thinks of the Putin government as a desirable model.

Virtually every magazine, newspaper, TV station and cable channel is owned by a big corporation, and they've squashed stories that they don't want the public to know about.

Television news is now entertainment, and the stories are being written by the people that have a special interest in them.

Most of the press is in league with government, or with the status quo.

You know it's always amazed me - I think the most startling thing that's happened in the last couple of decades is that there is no sort of objective reporting anymore.

Perhaps the biggest problem in journalism is the cult divide between journalists and corporate owners.

The Bush administration works closely with a network of rapid response digital brownshirts who work to pressure reporters and their editors for 'undermining support for our troops.'

For billionaires who cannot buy good press, there is the option of buying the press.

It is not true that Pena is 20 points above me. It's part of the management of the regime. They have control of the media, with few exceptions.

Every time a pundit or elected official is on any TV news program, it should be a polite formality to mention that GE has made such and such billions off the war in Iraq by selling arms or that Murdoch is a right-wing activist with a clear stake in who wins and who taxes his profits the least.

People knew that Murdoch's media estate in the UK was too powerful and it was doing very unpleasant things.

What the right-wing in the United States tries to do is undermine the press.

Whoever controls the media—the images—controls the culture.

The news media more and more considered the politicians to be props in their entertainment shows.

The few ... being closely combined ... inploy no printers [journalists and writers] but those that will adhear strictly to their vuies and interests.

To say that the newspaper press represents public opinion is to administer insult to intelligent men. It is the property of speculators, political leaders, large contractors and railway directors.