Michael Avenatti Quotes

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

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.

What is the liberty of the press? Who can give it any definition that would not leave the utmost latitude for evasion …. Its [the press's] security … must altogether depend on public opinion.

A free press may be good or bad, but without freedom a press can only be bad.

When I was at MSNBC, I had issues with the Obama administration. I got told by the person who runs MSNBC... that Washington was not happy with my tone.

The job of the press is to encourage debate, not to supply the public with information.

Without freedom of the press, there can be no representative government.

Think of the press as a great keyboard on which the government can play.

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

So this is all part of a free society. People are entitled to hold whatever view they want, and the media can report things how they wish.

Nobody from the administration has officially rejected my column.

I don't think about the media.

I used to think the press was a necessary evil and now I don't think it is. I think it's something you choose.

There's hardly any governmental censorship in Korea.

I think it is absolutely essential in a democracy to have competition in the media, a lot of competition, and we seem to be moving away from that.

Well, thank God for a media that will ask questions.

Fear rules almost every newsroom in the country.

Almost anything is better than three network TV outlets completely controlling the national discourse with their nightly broadcasts. We've moved a long way from that, and that's important.

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

Europe has a press that stresses opinions; America a press, radio, and television that emphasize news.

Our founding fathers could not have foreseen that freedom of the press might eventually be threatened just as much by media consolidation as by government.

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

At least in America, you have freedom of speech, which is a good thing. It's just a question of whether you're allowed to use it on 'Fox News'.

My level of intervention in the press, trying to control stories, is zero. Subzero.

For the sake of public discourse, for the demands of the free market, and for the value we place in citizen advocacy, Rush Limbaugh must go.