Jimmy Lai Quotes

The Press, which is mostly controlled by vested interests, has an excessive influence on public opinion.

At the end of the day, media is going to say whatever they're going to say.

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

It is precisely the purpose of the public opinion generated by the press to make the public incapable of judging, to insinuate into it the attitude of someone irresponsible, uninformed.

It is really the angling in the media that I do not like. That is how media can be rotten.

The media is controlled.

Television is democracy at its ugliest.

The media's power is frail. Without the people's support, it can be shut off with the ease of turning a light switch.

I remain terrified of the capacity of the media, the capacity of spin doctors, here and abroad, particularly the United States media, to perpetuate false lies, perpetuate lies.

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.

Unfortunately, the media, which are not at all reluctant to act in their own self-interest, have succeeded in equating reform in the public mind with further restrictions on just about everyone else's freedom of political speech.

They have been talking about a dictatorship and they were right because there's a dictatorship and there's a government that has been fighting that dictatorship, the dictatorship of the media.

Let me make the newspapers, and I care not what is preached in the pulpit or what is enacted in Congress.

You can't get past the liberal press with a bucket of ink.

Whoever controls the media, controls the mind.

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

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

Give people control of the media and they will use it. Don’t give them control and you will lose it.

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

The nation whose population depends on the explosively compressed headline service of television news can expect to be exploited by the demagogues and dictators who prey upon the semi-informed.

The journalistic traits that are valued on TV and radio talk shows are destructive to democracy.

If the American President had control of the media, his job would be much easier.

The presentation of an issue can no longer be controlled.

The media have disproportionate control of the information in our society.

The primary purpose of the media is to mobilize support for the controlling interests.