Time Quote by Nigel Fountain

The underground press serves as the only effective counter to a growing power, and more sophisticated techniques used by establishment mass media to falsify,…

— William S. Burroughs

We were the underground reporters.

— DJ Yella

“Our stable and eternal verities are being challenged. There's a kind of postmodern breakdown in journalism. The breadth of information sources and the speed…

— Judy Polumbaum

Freedom of the press underpins free societies around the world.

— Will Hurd

A free, analytical and questioning press must be helped survive.

— Xavier Niel

The press is like a woman: sublime when it lies, it will not let go until it has forced you to believe it. The…

— Honore de Balzac

“Struggling for survival and relevance, we as a profession of political journalists and commentators have collectively debased our craft to the lowest common denominator—writing…

— Kerry-Anne Walsh

[Restraints on the press] in all ages, have debauched morals, depressed liberty, shackled religion, supported despotism, and deluged the scaffold with blood.

— James Madison

The press is no substitute for institutions. It is like the beam of a searchlight that moves restlessly about, bringing one episode and then…

— Walter Lippmann

“The press is a gang of cruel faggots. Journalism is not a profession or a trade. It is a cheap catch-all for fuckoffs and…

— Hunter S. Thompson

The press is the hired agent of a monied system, and set up for no other purpose than to tell lies where their interests…

— Henry Adams

I don't know about the press, but I know in the town where I live everybody was aware that I was in Africa, because…

— Fannie Lou Hamer