Press Power Quotes

The press is so powerful in its image-making role, it can make the criminal look like he's a the victim and make the victim look like he's the criminal. This is the press, an irresponsible press. It will make the criminal look like he's the victim and make the victim look like he's the criminal. If you aren't careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.

Whatever may be said about the power of the press, it is undeniable that it can set the entire public thinking and talking about any topic ...

Never pick a fight with people who buy ink by the barrel.

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.

The press is our chief ideological weapon.

The papers conducted by Lord Rothermere and Lord Beaverbrook are not newspapers in the ordinary acceptance of the term. They are engines of propaganda for the constantly-changing policies, desires, personal wishes, and personal likes and dislikes of two men? What the proprietorship of those papers is aiming at is power, and power without responsibility the prerogative of the harlot throughout the ages.

The press is new and certainly a powerful agent in human affairs. It will change societies; but it is difficult to conceive how, by rendering men indocile and presumptuous, it can change them for the better.... It has inspired ignorance with presumption, so that those who cannot be governed by reason are no longer awed by authority.

Now everybody has to work together. They are the fourth estate. Incredibly powerful.

The press is called the Fourth Estate. It is definitely a power, but, to misuse that power is criminal.

The true Church of England, at this moment, lies in the Editors of the newspapers.

The power of the periodical press is second only to that of the people.

London owes everything to its press: it owes as much to its press as it does to its being the seat of government and the law.

What matters to the press matters perforce to politicians.

There was a vacuum in investigation, and the press began to try men in the most effective court in the country.

The Press, Watson, is a most valuable institution, if you only know how to use it.

When a large number of organs of the press come to advance along the same track, their influence becomes almost irresistible in the long term, and public opinion, struck always from the same side, ends by yielding under their blows.

There is no weapon stronger than the press.

There is no moderator or ombudsman online, and while the transparency of the web usually means that information is self-correcting, we still have to keep in mind the responsibility each of us carries when the power of the press is at our fingertips and in our pockets.

To-day a democrat of the old school would demand, not freedom for the press, but freedom from the press

How shall I speak thee, or thy power address Thou God of our idolatry, the Press. . . . . Like Eden's dead probationary tree, Knowledge of good and evil is from thee.

The press, like fire, is an excellent servant, but a terrible master.

The power of the press in America is a primordial one. It sets the agenda of public discussion; and this sweeping political power is unrestrained by any law. It deter- mines what people will talk and think about-an authority that in other nations is reserved for tyrants, priests, parties and mandarins.

To the public, the press is not David among Goliaths; it has become one of the Goliaths, Big Media, a combination of powerful television networks, large magazine groups and newspaper chains that are near-monopolies.

I think I could argue that the press has more impact on politics than corporations.

The press is not only free, it is powerful. That power is ours. It is the proudest that man can enjoy.