Evan Davis Quotes

More than once at TechCrunch, we made AOL extremely uncomfortable with things that we wrote. But they never ordered us to write or not write about something because they understood that not only would we not comply, we'd write a post about the whole thing.

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

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.

I'm not going to censor you fellows. I'm just leaving it up to each man's sense of responsibility.

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

We've been dealing with censorship around multimedia, about multinational companies and the content they create, for a very long time.

I feel instead of censorship, we need to self-regulate ourselves while producing any kind of content.

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.

Newspapers are closed if they print the wrong things in Iran. Iranian journalists or Iranian-American journalists, for that matter, I think are pressured in a lot of different ways, expected to give information to intelligence services. Americans can be thrown out of the country.

I think the media are so hypocritical a lot of the time in the way they chastise something just so that they can print it again.

They'll say, That's funny, but you can't do that on TV.

What is often said in private may not be said in public.

Most good newspapers don't set out to offend readers. But newspapers shouldn’t avoid controversy, and if they don’t occasionally a offend readers, they’re probably not doing their job.

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

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

While they shriek for "freedom of the press" when there is no slightest threat to that freedom, they deny to citizens that freedom from the press to which the decencies of life entitle them. They misrepresent, they distort, they color, they blackguard, they lie.

Publications and the press have freedom of expression except when it is detrimental to the fundamental principles of Islam

During this course of administration, and in order to disturb it, the artillery of the press has been leveled against us, charged with whatsoever its licentiousness could devise or dare. These abuses of an institution so important to freedom and science are deeply to be regretted, inasmuch as they tend to lessen its usefulness and to sap its safety.

All that crap, you're putting in the paper ... Katie Graham is gonna get her tit caught in a big fat wringer if that's published.

Liberty of the press is a privilege to publish, with impunity, falsehood on matters of public concern, in the honest belief it is truth, with good motives, for justifiable ends

It is a free press...There are laws to protect the freedom of the press's speech, but none that are worth anything to protect the people from the press.

… most censorship took place in the heads of writers, and what the writers failed to cut usually got filtered out by editors in publishing houses.

I am by no means alone within the family or the company in being ashamed and sickened by Roger Ailes’s horrendous and sustained disregard of the journalistic standards that News Corporation, its founder and every other global media business aspires to.

Even in an enlightened democracy, the media have to check themselves to make sure they are not contributing to an unnecessary mass hysteria.

There are all sorts of despicable people who journalists have done interviews with, and it's been useful. Isn't more information better than less information?