“It is tech entrepreneurs, casino magnates and hedge fund billionaires who are seizing control of the press, simply by writing a check.”— David Gelles, nytimes.com
“The fact that nine-tenths of all the smutty literature, artistic tripe and theatrical banalities, had to be charged to the account of people who formed scarcely one per cent. of the nation—that fact could not be gainsaid. It was there, and had to be admitted.”— Adolf Hitler, amazon.com
“I am not asking for government censorship or any other kind of censorship. I am asking whether a kind of censorship already exists when the news that forty million Americans receive each night is determined by a handful of men responsible only to their corporate employers and filtered through a hand…”— Spiro Agnew, ucs.louisiana.edu
“The American people should be made aware of the trend toward monopolization of the great public information vehicles and the concentration of more and more power over public opinion in fewer and fewer hands.”— Spiro Agnew, books.google.com
“No, things haven't really changed. But ultimately, I still believe that there is only one institution that can help. Not the government, not the law. The media is the only salvation. The only hope for us is the press, but the press is deeply polluted. The media can be a powerful corrective to untrut…”— Harry Evans, hollywoodreporter.com
“Mike may have gotten a lot of things about journalism wrong, but this one he got right: The duty of a media owner is to readers first, following very closely by a duty to support their team. All other confrontations are survivable as long as you do right by those two groups.”— Sarah Lacy, pando.com