Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quoteShare via Email Print this Page Daily Quotes Archives2000-12-22 Dec 22, 2000We are going to impose our agenda on the coverage by dealing with the issues and subjects we choose to deal with.~ Richard M. CohenThere's nothing so absurd that if you repeat it often enough, people will believe it.~ William James Dec 21, 2000An able, disinterested, public-spirited press, with trained intelligence to know the right and courage to do it, can preserve that public virtue without which popular government is a sham and a mockery. A cynical, mercenary, demagogic press will produce in time a people as base as itself.~ Joseph PulitzerNewspapers have degenerated. They may now be absolutely relied upon.~ Oscar Wilde Dec 20, 2000There is no such thing ... in America as an independent press.~ John Swinton Dec 19, 2000Our job is to give people not what they want, but what we decide they ought to have.~ Richard SalantNews reporters are certainly liberal and left of center.~ Walter CronkiteThe news media in general are liberals.~ Barbara WaltersThe New York Times is deliberately pitched to the liberal point of view.~ Herman Dismore Dec 18, 2000Restriction of free thought and free speech is the most dangerous of all subversions. It is the one un-American act that could most easily defeat us.~ Justice William O. DouglasThe basis of our government being the opinion of the people, the very first object should be to keep that right; and were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate for a moment to prefer the latter.~ Thomas JeffersonI am for the First Amendment from the first word to the last. I believe it means what it says.~ Justice Hugo L. Black Previous week's quotes Next week's quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print