Free Media Quotes

You can't have a free democracy if you don't have a free media that can provide vital and independent information to the people.

Democracy means free television, not good television, but free.

Where the press is free and every man able to read, all is safe.

A free public broadcast license is a privilege.

As a conservative who believes in limited government, I believe the only check on government power in real time is a free and independent press.

The reality is [Donald] Trump is just better at this game than they are. Blaming the media may be a convenient foil, but the reality is, he's played the free media game better than they have. He has used the personal attack meme against them and literally created memes about them. They need to figure out how to play this game.

Terrorism cannot be fought successfully without news media that are free to enquire into the causes of terrorism, and the political and social condition in which it thrives

In China, you just don't have the space for civil society and independent discourse and free media that you do in India. That's why India's success is so important as the world's largest democracy.

A free press may be good or bad, but without freedom a press can only be bad.

The basis of our government's being the opinion of the people, the very first object should be to keep that right; and were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate for a moment to prefer the latter.

The overall tectonic shifts that are going on in games and more broadly in media are that everything is moving to becoming free, social, and accessible. But we're just at the beginning of that. We can get to a day where short-session play can enhance, if not replace, text messaging as a way to stay in touch with people.

There is no more important struggle for American democracy than ensuring a diverse, independent and free media. Free Press is at the heart of that struggle.

A functional media is as important to democratic freedom as voting.

As an American, no one expected Donald Trump to ever be a serious candidate for President. I don't think he even expected to be a serious candidate. He wanted the free media he would get.

The press in India, I believe, is more free, and happily so, than perhaps media anywhere in the world. Right? Which is a good thing.

The press must be free; it has always been so and much evil has been corrected by it. If Government finds itself annoyed by it, let it examine its own conduct and it will find the cause.

The most effective means of ensuring the government's accountability to the people is an aggressive, free, challenging, untrusting press.

With public television, they're making things that aren't driven by advertisers. They're one of the only platforms where we can really mine for truth.

Remember Donald Trump had about $4 billion worth of free media, and Hillary Clinton has had about $2 billion, and we've had zero. I think it remarkable that we are standing where we are.

In fact, the media should not be run by the government at all.

The press in America has never been stronger and never been freer and never been more vibrant, sometimes to my chagrin, and a lot of times to my delight.

He [Donald Trump] is gotten $4 billion worth of free media. They launched his campaign. As I think the president of CBS said, you know, "He may be bad for America but he sure is good for my bottom line."

The media bring our wars home, but only rarely have they been able to do it in complete freedom.

One of my beliefs very strongly is that any democracy depends on a free, healthy press.

We had much more imagery from Vietnam war. The media was not controlled. The storyline, the master narrative was not controlled. I thin it was some those images really radicalized people and shifted things to some extent. And the Viet Cong also, their tenacity.