Rush Limbaugh Quotes

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.

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

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

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

The most sacred cow of the press is the press itself

The FAKE NEWS media (failing @nytimes, @NBCNews, @ABC, @CBS, @CNN) is not my enemy, it is the enemy of the American People!

The press are animals, and they need to be treated that way.

What I say is that there are not half a dozen papers in the United States which tamper with the news, which publish what they know to be false. But if I thought I had done no better than that, I would be ashamed to own a paper. You have to make everyone connected with the paper believe that accuracy is to a newspaper what virtue is to a woman.

Media doesn't like when other media gets their credentials pulled - that's not OK.

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

There was no doubt that in the early and mid-eighties that many of us in broadsheet newspapers felt that we still had a responsibility to try to protect the Royal Family or if you like protect the Monarchy from the assaults of the media.

A free press needs to be a respected press.

Newspapers and their editors have to become as accountable as the rest of us - they are not 'a special case,' and they have only themselves to blame for having lost the argument for 'exceptionalism' - and with it the right to 'self-regulation.'

The media does play a vital role in our democracy, and if we cannot depend on journalistic ethics, the nation's in trouble.

Every journalist who is not too stupid or too full of himself to notice what is going on knows that what he does is morally indefensible.

I am not here to accuse the media of anything.

We shouldn't build a technology to colour, or grey out, what people say. The media in general is balanced, although there are a lot of issues to be addressed that the media rightly pick up on.

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.

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.

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

We in the media should be breaking the news and not making the news.

It’s always a danger when an institution like the press becomes disconnected from the people.

You hope the American people are fair. We recognize journalists have to kill somebody each week.

I accept the media for what they are. Most of them are really good people. Some of them are scumbags.