Petina Gappah Quotes

At Grozny TV, the line between journalism and government propaganda is traversed as often as a Manhattan crosswalk.

The Obama administration has been curtailing press freedom - but that hasn't ended the press' drool-cup worship for their beloved president.

This is probably my last free statement through our news media, where the radio and television are already under the heel of the ruling political party of Prime Minister Robert Mugabe. One would have thought radio and television were enough as propaganda tools.

Even China's leaders routinely let the news media pool in, though they do their best to ignore them.

The shutting out or boycotting of selected media cannot take place in Austria.

Apparently, all foreign media organisations have to follow an approved script of acceptable coverage, lest they are accused of interference. And make no mistake: we're not talking about neutrality. The only acceptable approach was, 'Support Clinton, attack Trump'.

Al Jazeera is demonized by the United States, yet in Egypt my father would be watching it.

Journalism has a special, hallowed place for stories of its practitioners' persecution.

There are different opinions across the Middle East of Al-Jazeera. They've been kicked out of Egypt and Jordan and then let back in; they've been totally banned from Saudi Arabia, Sudan and Syria.

As far as the media is concerned, I wouldn't shoot anything down.

The violation of press freedoms has been egregious under this administration, even as the press fetes President Obama as an honest and effective commander-in-chief.

Routine is a declivity down which many governments slide, and routine says that freedom of the press is dangerous.

We began to see the renovation of our offices as a subtle part of the Nixon war against the press.

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

The job of the press is to speak truth to power. And yet, for doing our job, we are persecuted. I say that these aggressive and illegal tactics to silence us - inventing arbitrary legal interpretations, over-zealous charges and disproportionate sentences - must not be permitted to succeed.

What the right-wing in the United States tries to do is undermine the press.

The last thing we want is politicians running newspapers, but so too we don't want newspapers running the government.

The press, that distinguished appendage of public liberty … has been invariably prostituted …

The concept that the press is an organ of government policy dies hard.

[Drew] Pearson and [Walter] Winchell are a high price to pay for freedom of the press, but I guess you've got to do it.

The media are the opposition party.

They've been irrelevant to me, the print media, because my link does not depend upon the menial minds of the scribblers in Canberra or anywhere else.

The fact that there aren't more restrictions on the media is disgraceful.

I don't think it is deniable: whenever we, I, conservative media, are really interested in something, the mainstream media purposely avoid it.

Given an opportunity, Modi has violated the freedom of press both in letter and spirit. He destroys freedom of the press whenever he gets a chance.