Press
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- Press freedom does not mean that the press should be above the law. While it’s vital that a free press can tell truth to power, it is equally important that those in power can tell truth to the press.
- The beauty of new media is that no evidence is necessary. The brave blog-troopers have stormed the cockpit of news, and wrestled the joystick of authority away from the seasoned pilots of the press who would land our country at the Facts International Airport.
- [The media can be] the greatest force for peace on the earth [for] it is how we come to understand each other.
- Media use has become a real contact sport. It's not just consumerism, it's a conversational experience.
- You want to know what's wrong with the press? The press is what's wrong with the press.
- One guiding principle of traditional journalism is to ‘comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable.’
- The media can be an instrument of change: it can maintain the status quo and reflect the views of the society or it can, hopefully, awaken people and change minds. I think it depends on who’s piloting the plane.
- We’re not going to cost-cut our way to prosperity or to greatness in this business.
- It's a free country, but the noisiest people get the coverage.
- The media's modern panopticon has an awful way of reducing us all to the worst thing we've ever done.
- Press freedom does not mean that the press should be above the law. While it's vital that a free press can tell truth to power, it is equally important that those in power can tell truth to the press.
- One guiding principle of traditional journalism is to 'comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable.