Jeremy Hunt Quotes

The perception of broadcasters as community trustees should be replaced by a view of broadcasters as marketplace participants.

We need a free press. We must have it. It's vital.

The 'Guardian''s unique ownership structure safeguards our editorial independence from commercial or political interference and means we can reinvest any money we receive into this journalism that matters so much.

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

We need a free media, not just freedom of speech.

The BBC is a victim of its own independence.

Broadcasting is really too important to be left to the broadcasters.

In the best of all worlds, the producers would take some responsibility for the kinds of things they're putting out. Unfortunately, they don't.

I was for many years myself a journalist and it is not appropriate to say a programme should not be broadcast.

Freedom of the press is not questioned when investigative journalism unearths scandals, But that does not mean that every classified state document should be made available to journalists.

The BBC should not have a cheerleader. It should have somebody who runs the organisation in the interests of the public and that should be a chairman.

A free and truly independent press - fiercely independent when necessary - is the red beating heart of freedom and democracy.

It's really actually been pretty shoddy and appalling, the amount of local content, Australian drama, on ABC TV.

Broadcasting is really too important to be left to the broadcasters and somehow we must find some new way of using radio and television to allow us to talk to each other.

The editorial policies of the state newspapers and the state broadcaster has remained partisan and unreformed, and the media field remains dominated by the same partisan state players.

Junk journalism is the evidence of a society that has got at least one thing right, that there should be nobody with the power to dictate where responsible journalism begins

Press freedom has great virtues. It is not about irresponsible scandal-mongering, although that may be part of the picture. It is a means of revealing wrongdoing.

I don't have any quarrel with the BBC.

I don't owe the media anything.

I am not against privatisation of the media channels but I stand for a strong regulation and transparency.

Freedom of the press underpins free societies around the world.

The Federal Communications Commission needs to listen and serve the American people, not special interests.

After working at the 'Guardian' for two decades, I feel I know instinctively why it exists. Most of our journalists and our readers do, too - it's something to do with holding power to account and upholding liberal values.

Mass protests often get books or films banned, but very few people take to the streets to challenge the right of the State to decide what we can read or watch - it's still someone else's problem.

Importantly, while PBS is subject to some of the Commission's Kid Vid rules, its business model is designed around community programming, and its efforts will continue with or without Commission mandates.