Media Blackout Quotes

In the United States, we can talk about ISIS, but we can't talk about Palestine.

Do not read the newspapers.

I was watching a documentary that during the Bay of Pigs crisis JFK had about two weeks before anybody reported on it. Imagine that. I think it's fair to say that if something like that happens under a current president, they've got to figure out in about an hour what their response is.

The Pentagon today will not allow any of these people who work for the Pentagon, to talk to the media. They have gagged them from talking to members of Congress.

There will be no more blabbing secrets to the media.

Let's run through the various ways they're trying to marginalize the Green Party and even the Libertarian Party. One way is to keep you off the mass media.

The President [Barack Obama] had suggested that I not watch the news during the confirmation process. I assiduously followed his advice.

I will say that Marvel is 100 times more secretive than 'Game of Thrones.' Like, they're not even on the same playing field.

People ought to quit talking to the press.

There were no tourists. Beer was illegal. There was only government television and no television on Thursdays or in the summer.

Rand Paul is taking a week-long break from talking to the media to spend time with his family before he officially announces that he is running for president. Because nothing motivates you to be on the road for two straight years like a week alone with your family.

No news is good news. No journalists is even better.

I'm not on social media; I don't watch TV. I'm really out of it.

We can't have cellphones, TV, radio or the Internet. If the president died, we'd have no idea. There's no normalcy. It's just like prison, with cameras.

If they can shut down ABC News and ABC network programming just because they don't agree on something, it makes you wonder

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

Public television goes dark only in two circumstances: when a country is occupied by foreign forces or when there is a coup.

A lot of what happens in the world is full-on crazy and doesn't get reported on.

They started to try and keep us off the air in the beginning.

No, I didn't hear about 'Live Aid.' I was in prison, and we were not allowed newspapers in prison.

How many educated Americans can even remember the names of the assassinated Jesuit intellectuals of El Salvador, or would know where to find a word they wrote? The answers are revealing, particularly when we draw the striking - and historically typical - contrast to the attitudes towards their counterparts in enemy domains.

Often times, I just do a job and tell my agents, 'I'm in lockdown now.' I won't talk to anybody about anything else in the meantime, and I think that's generally the way to go because I also like to have a gap in between jobs.

The major newspapers simply stopped writing about me, and my voice could no longer be heard on radio or television.

When I'm working, I'm going to avoid all media. No newspapers, no magazines, no movies, no radio, no TV. I'm just going to do creative work.

The first presidential debate was down in Florida. Residents spent all day putting plywood on their televisions.