Media Quotes

"America is a country of inventors and the greatest of inventors are the newspaper men" "Great questions make great reporting" "If you're curious, you'll probably be a good journalist because we follow our curiosity like cats" "The freedom of the press is one of the great bulwarks of liberty and can never be restrained but by despotic governments" "Propaganda is lousy to live with and difficult to overcome" "There are 400,000 words in the English language, and there are seven you can't say on television. What a ratio that is. 399,993 to 7. They must really be bad. They’d have to be outrageous to be separated from a group that large" "If you don't read the newspaper, you're uninformed. If you read the newspaper, you're misinformed" "Music is always a commentary on society" "Any dictator would admire the uniformity and obedience of the U.S. media." "If you have a big mouth and you’re controversial, you’re going to get attention." "Reality has a well-known liberal bias." "To me, bad taste is what entertainment is all about" "98% of the adults in this country are decent, hardworking, honest Americans. It's the other lousy 2% that get all the publicity. But then, we elected them " "In a world where, let's say, everyone is blogging, it's difficult for a citizen to know what is really happening" "Whoever controls the media, controls the mind"