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«I read the newspaper avidly. It is my one form of continuous fiction.»
Author: Arthur Christopher Benson (Writer) | About: Press | Keywords: avidly, one form
«Freedom of the press is not an end in itself but a means to the end of [achieving] a free society.»
Author: Felix Frankfurter (Jurist) | About: Press | Keywords: achieving, the press
«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.»
Author: Geoffrey Fisher | About: Freedom, Press | Keywords: countless, loudly, picked
«Criticism of government finds sanctuary in several portions of the 1st Amendment. It is part of the right of free speech. It embraces freedom of the press.»
«A cantankerous press, an obstinate press, a ubiquitous press, must be suffered by those in authority in order to preserve the right of the people to know.»
«Freedom of expression - in particular, freedom of the press - guarantees popular participation in the decisions and actions of government, and popular participation is the essence of our democracy.»
«Congress, the press, and the bureaucracy too often focus on how much money or effort is spent, rather than whether the money or effort actually achieves the announced goal.»
«A free press can of course be good or bad, but, most certainly, without freedom it will never be anything but bad. . . . Freedom is nothing else but a chance to be better, whereas enslavement is a certainty of the worse.»
«If in other lands the press and books and literature of all kinds are censored, we must redouble our efforts here to keep them free»
«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.»
Author: Stephen Colbert | About: Decision, Press