Media

(217 votes)   Some newspapers are fit only to line the bottom of bird cages.

Spiro T. Agnew
1918-1996, American Vice President

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(207 votes)   There are only two forces that can carry light to all the corners of the globe... the sun in the heavens and the Associated Press down here.

Mark Twain
1835-1910, American Humorist, Writer

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(81 votes)   The men with the muck-rake are often indispensable to the well-being of society, but only if they know when to stop raking the muck.

Theodore Roosevelt
1858-1919, Twenty-sixth President of the USA

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(61 votes)   Belief is with them mechanical, voluntary: they believe what they are paid for -- they swear to that which turns to account. Do you suppose, that after years spent in this manner, they have any feeling left answering to the difference between truth and falsehood?

William Hazlitt
1778-1830, British Essayist

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(50 votes)   Report me and my cause aright.

William Shakespeare
1564-1616, British Poet, Playwright, Actor

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(45 votes)   Power without responsibility -- the prerogative of the harlot throughout the ages.

Stanley Baldwin
1867-1947, British Conservative Politician, Prime Minister

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(45 votes)   The press today is an army with carefully organized weapons, the journalists its officers, the readers its soldiers. But, as in every army, the soldier obeys blindly, and the war aims and operating plans change without his knowledge. The reader neither knows nor is supposed to know the purposes for which he is used and the role he is to play. There is no more appalling caricature of freedom of thought. Formerly no one was allowed to think freely; now it is permitted, but no one is capable of it any more. Now people want to think only what they are supposed to want to think, and this they consider freedom.

Oswald Spengler
1880-1936, German Philosopher

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(45 votes)   There is a terrific disadvantage in not having the abrasive quality of the press applied to you daily. Even though we never like it, and even though we wish they didn't write it, and even though we disapprove, there isn't any doubt that we could not do the job at all in a free society without a very, very active press.

John F. Kennedy
1917-1963, Thirty-fifth President of the USA

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(44 votes)   On leaf of palm, on sedge-wrought roll; on plastic clay and leather scroll, man wrote his thoughts; the ages passed, and lo! the Press was found at last!

John Greenleaf Whittier
1807-1892, American Poet, Reformer, Author

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(43 votes)   We are eager to tunnel under the Atlantic and bring the Old World some weeks nearer to the New; but perchance the first news that will leak through into the broad, flapping American ear will be that the Princess Adelaide has the whooping cough.

Henry David Thoreau
1817-1862, American Essayist, Poet, Naturalist

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(37 votes)   It is impossible to read the daily press without being diverted from reality. You are full of enthusiasm for the eternal verities -- life is worth living, and then out of sinful curiosity you open a newspaper. You are disillusioned and wrecked.

Patrick Kavanagh
1905-1967, Irish Poet, Author

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(37 votes)   The press is no substitute for institutions. It is like the beam of a searchlight that moves restlessly about, bringing one episode and then another out of darkness into vision. Men cannot do the work of the world by this light alone. They cannot govern society by episodes, incidents, and eruptions. It is only when they work by a steady light of their own, that the press, when it is turned upon them, reveals a situation intelligible enough for a popular decision.

Walter Lippmann
1889-1974, American Journalist

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(33 votes)   In old days men had the rack. Now they have the Press.

Oscar Wilde
1856-1900, British Author, Wit

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(33 votes)   The media network has its idols, but its principal idol is its own style which generates an aura of winning and leaves the rest in darkness. It recognizes neither pity nor pitilessness.

John Berger
1926-, British Actor, Critic

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(32 votes)   The press, that goiter of the world, swells up with the desire for conquest and bursts with the achievements which every day brings. A week has room for the boldest climax of the human drive for expansion.

Karl Kraus
1874-1936, Austrian Satirist

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