Cenk Uygur Quotes

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

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

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

I'm not allowed on FOX, and I'm not allowed on MSNBC.

The biased left-wing media does what it wants. That's not going to define me or hamper me.

You have to be down here in the States to realize just how tightly controlled the corporate media is and how much they practise Soviet-style censorship through creative omission.

The major networks, the cable networks, they're being prosecutors. They're judges and jurors and executioners. Well, c'mon, that's ridiculous. But they're doing it.

If I had my choice I would kill every reporter in the world, but I am sure we would be getting reports from Hell before breakfast.

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.

It is stupid on my part to think of banning the media.

The media are not progressive enough to let us govern. 24/7 news is the worst thing that has happened to the ability to govern.

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.

There is a power in our land, irresponsible, corrupt and malicious—‘the press,’ which has created the intense feelings of hostility that has arrayed the two parts of the country against each other, which must be curbed and brought within the just limits of reason and law, before we can have peace in America. We can deal with armies who have a visible and tangible existence, but it will require tact and skill and courage to clip the wings of this public enemy.

I have tried to write about this matter without any improper bias, but of course we are all cowards about newspapers who tyrannize over us all.

In spite of your “liberty of the press”, at a hint from your government your whole national press becomes unanimous on questions outside domestic politics.

Whoever said I hated the media?

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

When Senator Cruz, with all due respect, tries to throw my network and CNN under the bus, let me stand up for my colleagues and journalists here.

'The Washington Post' doesn't have to report on what I post on Twitter. CNN doesn't have to report on what I post on Twitter. All kinds of media outlets - they don't have to report on anything that I post on Twitter. Just like they don't have to report on all kinds of other things that other people post on Twitter.

If the media is a farce, why should you be the only one stuck with rules and restrictions?

The media can allege corruption, but if I do the same against the media, I am gagging freedom of expression.

The U.S. corporate media, otherwise known as the "free press," is that hollow pillar on which contemporary American democracy rests.

I have never quite grasped the worry about the power of the press. After all, it speaks with a thousand voices, in constant dissonance.