Quotes about Media

Journalism is popular, but it is popular mainly as fiction. Life is one world, and life seen in the newspapers is another.

Since I'm in the entertainment business, I think I have to hold a mirror up to myself and say, 'Am I complicit in miseducating and misinforming our youth by participating in this business, or can I use this business to re-educate and uplift?'

I've never had that much trouble with the paparazzi, but I don't run the same circles that a lot of these people that do get hounded by the paparazzi.

It's not true I had nothing on, I had the radio on.

On Facebook, the definition of great content is not the content that makes the most sales, but the content that people most want to share with others.

There's some very good medias. And I have to say, Fox has treated me fairly. And I don't mean good, but they've treated me fairly. I don't want to be treated good. I just want to be treated fairly.

When you trust your television What you get is what you got Cause when they own the information, oh They can bend it all they want.

I want you to understand clearly, I am not a journalist - be very clear on that. I am an opinion maker.

The first 20 stories written about a public figure set the tone for the next 2,000 and it is almost impossible to reverse it.

I would like Leveson Part Two. I think Leveson was a good exercise. That is why the Tories blocked it, because it was beginning to develop more accountability within the media itself.

Once a country accepts censorship of the press and of speech, then nothing can be won without violence. Therefore, so long as you have free speech, protect it. This is the life-and-death issue in this country: do not give up the freedom of the press—of newspapers, books, magazines, television, radios, movies, and every other form of presenting ideas. So long as that's free, a peaceful intellectual turn is possible.

Once you became president, people's perceptions of you—even the perceptions of those who knew you best—were inevitably shaped by the media.