"The media is supposed to be custodians of the facts and watchdogs of government. They have, for the most part, neglected to be either of those things."

(Janeane Garofalo)
(1964, American stand-up comedian, actress, political activist and writer)

“Here's how it works: the president makes decisions. He's the decider. The press secretary announces those decisions, and you people of the press type those decisions down. Make, announce, type. Just put 'em through a spell check and go home.”

(Stephen Colbert)

"The world is changing very fast. Big will not beat small anymore. It will be the fast beating the slow."

(Rupert Murdoch)

"No government ought to be without censor, and where the press is free no one ever will."

(Thomas Jefferson)

"There is a terrific disadvantage in not having the abrasive quality of the press applied to you daily. Even though we never like it, and even though we wish they didn't write it, and even though we disapprove, there isn't any doubt that we could not do the job at all in a free society without a very, very active press."

(John F. Kennedy)

"Newspapers have degenerated. They may now be absolutely relied upon."

(Oscar Wilde)

(1854-1900, Irish poet)

"I certainly think we have an emergency in media, and we gotta fix it."

(Phil Donahue)
(American talk show host of the Phil Donahue Show, writer and film producer)

"You can't build a strong corporation with a lot of committees and a board that has to be consulted every turn. You have to be able to make decisions on your own."

(Rupert Murdoch)

"There cannot be forgotten the great possibilities of mass media in promoting dialogue, becoming vehicles for reciprocal knowledge, of solidarity and of peace. They become a powerful resource for good if used to foster understanding between peoples, a destructive 'weapon' if used to foster injustice and conflicts."

(Pope John Paul II)

"People everywhere confuse what they read in newspapers with news."

(A.J. Liebling)
(1904 – 1963,  American journalist)

"There's lots of stuff none of us have ever seen before. That's good in some ways, but limiting in other ways."

(Mark Zuckerberg)

"A free press is not a privilege but an organic necessity in a great society. ... A great society is simply a big and complicated urban society."

(Walter Lippman)
(1889 - 1974, American intellectual, reporter, writer, Pulitzer Prize winner)

"...because of forced globalization, there’s a clear trend these days towards uniformity. This trend comes largely from the ever-greater concentration of power in the hands of large media groups."

(Eduardo Galeano)
(Journalist, novelist from Uruguay)

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

(Benjamin Disraeli)

"It’s hard to believe that in the greatest democracy in the world, we need legislation to prevent the government from writing and paying for the news.”

(John Kerry)

"Mainstream media tend to just mouth the conventional wisdom, to see everything through the filter of right and left."

(Arianna Huffington)

"Independent media can go to where the silence is and break the sound barrier, doing what the corporate networks refuse to do."

(Amy Goodman)
(American progressive broadcast journalist)

"All over the place, from the popular culture to the propaganda system, there is constant pressure to make people feel that they are helpless, that the only role they can have is to ratify decisions and to consume."

(Noam Chomsky)

"Advertising is legalized lying."

(H.G.Wells)

(1866-1946, British-born American Author)

"It's not because of the amount of money. For me and my colleagues, the most important thing is that we create an open information flow for people. Having media corporations owned by conglomerates is just not an attractive idea to me."

(Mark Zuckerberg)

"Personal columnists are jackals and no jackal has been known to live on grass once he had learned about meat -- no matter who killed the meat for him."

(Ernest Hemingway)

"Once a newspaper touches a story the facts are lost forever, even to the protagonists."

(Norman Mailer)

"Most rock journalism is people who can't write, interviewing people who can't talk, for people who can't read."

(Frank Zappa)

(1940-1993)

"Bad manners make a journalist."

(Oscar Wilde)

(1854-1900, Irish poet)

"We are eager to tunnel under the Atlantic and bring the Old World some weeks nearer to the New; but perchance the first news that will leak through into the broad, flapping American ear will be that the Princess Adelaide has the whooping cough."

(Henry David Thoreau)

"A good newspaper is a nation talking to itself."

(Arthur Miller)

"Hastiness and superficiality are the psychic diseases of the twentieth century, and more than anywhere else this disease is reflected in the press."

(Alexander Solzhenitsyn)

"Early in life I had noticed that no event is ever correctly reported in a newspaper."

(George Orwell)

"I think there's confusion around what the point of social networks is. A lot of different companies characterized as social networks have different goals - some serve the function of business networking, some are media portals. What we're trying to do is just make it really efficient for people to communicate, get information and share information."

(Mark Zuckerberg)

"The thing that people seem to miss about not just Google, but also our competitors, Yahoo, eBay and so forth, is that there's an awful lot of communities that have never been served by traditional media."

(Eric Schmidt)

 

"We have to do more than keep media giants from growing larger; they're already too big. We need a new set of rules that will break these huge companies to pieces."

(Ted Turner)

“Your brand is not what you say it is, it is what Google says it is.”

(Chris Anderson)

“Are my customers loyal ? Absolutely! 100%. Right till the moment someone offers a better service.”

(Jeff Bezos)

"Real Time is the new Prime Time"

(Queen Rania)

"I'm a catalyst for change … You can't be an outsider and be successful over 30 years without leaving a certain amount of scar tissue around the place."

(Rupert Murdoch)

"I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers."

(Gandhi)

"If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing."

(Malcolm X)

"I fear three newspapers more than a hundred thousand bayonets."

(Napoleon)

"You can crush a man with journalism."

(William Randolph Hearst)

"Journalism is literature in a hurry."

(Matthew Arnold)

"The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers."

(Thomas Jefferson)

"They kill good trees to put out bad newspapers."

(James G. Watt, quoted in Newsweek, 8 March 1982)

"The flood of print has turned reading into a process of gulping rather than savoring."

(Warren Chappell)

"Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the time by watching the second hand of a clock."

(Ben Hecht)

"If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read: "President Can't Swim."

(Lyndon B. Johnson)

"I always turn to the sports section first. The sports section records people's accomplishments; the front page nothing but man's failures."

(Earl Warren, quoted in Sports Illustrated, 22 July 1968)

"We have computers now that let us do 400 million shares a day or whatever the equivalent number of transactions in the bond business is, compared to the old days. But it's the same process. We still have salesmen selling to people."

(Michael Bloomberg)

"I think that all money can do is to get your message out. Unfortunately, we live in a world where you have to use mass media to communicate with the people, and it just costs an awful lot of money."

(Michael Bloomberg)

"Both U.S. President Barack Obama and French President Nicolas Sarkozy have used Facebook as a way to organize their supporters. From the protests against the Colombian FARC, a 40-year old terrorist organization, to fighting oppressive, fringe groups in India, people use Facebook as a platform to build connections and organize action."

(Mark Zuckerberg)

“All of us who professionally use the mass media are the shapers of society. We can vulgerize that society. We can brutalize it. Or we can help lift it onto a higher level.”

(William Bernbach)
(American advertising creative director, who lived from 1911 till 1982, one of the three founders of advertising agency DDB -Doyle, Dane, Bernbach)