William Tecumseh Sherman Quotes

American newspapers are so filthy and bestial that no honest man would admit one into his house for a water-closet doormat.

I loathe and despise the media in a way I did not think possible.

There is a power in our land, irresponsible, corrupt and malicious—‘the press,’ which has created the intense feelings of hostility that has arrayed the two parts of the country against each other, which must be curbed and brought within the just limits of reason and law, before we can have peace in America. We can deal with armies who have a visible and tangible existence, but it will require tact and skill and courage to clip the wings of this public enemy.

I think there are a lot of reasons to be critical of the media in America.

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

The press is the enemy.

Fear rules almost every newsroom in the country.

If there's one thing that everyone can agree on, it's that, right or wrong, they hate the press.

I'm not going to make general comments about the British press.

In the U.K., journalists are a little bit more ruthless than in Denmark. I have a feeling the tabloid press in the U.K. is pretty harsh.

I can only assume that your editorial writer tripped over the First Amendment and thought it was the office cat.

I happen to believe that any legitimate news organization in the world would do that interview. And if the United States is going to be a proponent of a free press, it has to walk the walk.

We believe that the remedy to any harm resulting from press freedom lies in press freedom itself.

The press are scum.

I am one of the few men in public life who doesn't complain much about his treatment as the hands of the press. The press takes me to task every once in a while, but they have always been very kind, not attributing my hypocrisy to bad motives. They have always attributed it to a lack of mental capacity.

If this newspaper pestilence shall continue for fifty years more, the intelligence of our people will be destroyed.... Hold fast and zealously, therefore, to the slogan I now ask you to make your own: hatred and contempt, death and destruction, of the press of today.

...the liberty of the Press is called the Palladium of Freedom, which means, in these days, the liberty of being deceived, swindled, and humbugged by the Press and paying hugely for the deception.

It tends to be overlooked that many people are indirectly affected by thoughtless and cruel journalism.

I don't owe the media anything.

The ferociousness of some of the media is shocking.

Media doesn't like when other media gets their credentials pulled - that's not OK.

The media can allege corruption, but if I do the same against the media, I am gagging freedom of expression.

When you read Western press, you probably get a feeling that all Russian press is censored, there's no freedom at all, we can't say whatever, which is absolutely, absolutely, completely untrue.

Some of the press who speak loudly about the freedom of the press are themselves the enemies of freedom. Countless people dare not say a thing because they know it will be picked up and made a song of by the press. That limits freedom.

Journalism is the protection between people and any sort of totalitarian rule. That's why my hero, admittedly a flawed one, is a journalist.