Abuse Quote by Harriet Martineau

Newspapers, television networks, and magazines have sometimes been outrageously abusive, untruthful, arrogant, and hypocritical. But it hardly follows that elimination of a strong and…

— Potter Stewart

It is the role of good journalism to take on powerful abusers, and when powerful abusers are taken on, there's always a bad reaction.…

— Julian Assange

The freedom of the press is a valuable privilege, but the abuse of it in this country is a frightful evil. The licentiousness of…

— Noah Webster

“Mirror, Standard, Telegraph, Birmingham Post, Sketch, all careful to report accurately the events without editorial comment. Unlike some countries, the British press must be…

— Leon Uris

It is so difficult to draw a clear line of separation between the abuse and the wholesome use of the press, that as yet…

— Thomas Jefferson

When public men indulge themselves in abuse, when they deny others a fair trial, when they resort to innuendo and insinuation, to libel, scandal,…

— J. William Fulbright

When public men indulge themselves in abuse, when they deny others a fair trial, when they resort to innuendo and insinuation, to libel, scandal,…

— J. William Fulbright

“Rich, famous, insider journalists do not want to subvert the status quo that so lavishly rewards them. Like all courtiers, they are eager to…

— Glenn Greenwald

For a profession that holds dear both the ability to vivisect politicians in prose and the expectation that these carved-up subjects will not complain,…

— Julia Gillard

When analysis and opinion are invited, various viewpoints should be represented. Allegations of political blame, when they occur, should be reasonably challenged on all…

— Sharyl Attkisson

The newspaper journalists like to believe the worst; they can sell more papers that way, as one of them told me himself; for even…

— Margaret Atwood

The newspaper that obstructs the law on a trivial pretext, for money's sake, is a dangerous enemy to the public weal. That awful power,…

— Mark Twain