Tim Berners-Lee Quotes

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

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 used to think the press was a necessary evil and now I don't think it is. I think it's something you choose.

I think the media needs a little criticizing now, as it did in the '80s, don't you?

I am not here to accuse the media of anything.

I'm not going to make general comments about the British press.

If this newspaper pestilence shall continue for fifty years more, the intelligence of our people will be destroyed.... Hold fast and zealously, therefore, to the slogan I now ask you to make your own: hatred and contempt, death and destruction, of the press of today.

The fact that there aren't more restrictions on the media is disgraceful.

It is an honor to take the helm of 'Reliable Sources,' the very best of a very small number of programs about the media's role in society.

The truth is that the more responsible the media outlet, the more responsive they are to constructive criticism.

I think there are a lot of reasons to be critical of the media in America.

I'm very much in support of the free press, but the free press ought to be educational and informative. And I believe they have fallen down recently on that.

The media could do a much better job, that's for sure, especially the media that targets women... Human rights? They couldn't care less!

All the media are horrible.

My level of intervention in the press, trying to control stories, is zero. Subzero.

The press is a watchdog. Not an attack dog. Not a lapdog. A watchdog. Now, a watchdog can't be right all the time. He doesn't bark only when he sees or smells something that's dangerous. A good watchdog barks at things that are suspicious.

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.

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

I apologize for what the media has done.

The press ... is but the servant of human intellect and its ministry is for good or evil, according to the character of those who direct it. The press is a mill that grinds all that is put into its hopper. Fill the hopper with poisoned grain and it will grind it to meal, but there is death in the bread.

We do not need a censorship of the press. We have a censorship by the press.

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

The chief danger which threatens the influence and honor of the press is the tendency of its liberty to degenerate into license.

The presentation of an issue can no longer be controlled.

The most sacred cow of the press is the press itself