AtomicQuote

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah Quote

If the one who is to get us the news is in chains, the news may get to us but with chains!

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

If the one who is to get us the news is in chains, the news may get to us but with chains!

Tags: journalism, media freedom, press freedom

Related Quotes

The death of a billionaire is worth more to the media than the lives of a billion poor people.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

The death of a billionaire is worth more to the media than the lives of a billion poor people.

Tags: ad, adage, adages, advert, advertiser, advertisers, advertising, advertising space, advertising spaces, adverts

When journalists are 'accused' of being 'advocates', that means: challenging and deviating from DC orthodoxies.

Glenn Greenwald

When journalists are 'accused' of being 'advocates', that means: challenging and deviating from DC orthodoxies.

Tags: 2012, david petraeus, dissent, journalism, michael hastings, petraeus scandal, politics, twitter, washington dc

C'etait un jour de fete. Mais l'haine se repete. Laissez pas la peur dominer le coeur, Si on veut que l'amour soit vainqueur

Ana Claudia Antunes

C'etait un jour de fete. Mais l'haine se repete. Laissez pas la peur dominer le coeur, Si on veut que l'amour soit vainqueur

Tags: amour, assassin, ataque, bastille, bastille pompeii, chute, coeur, coexistence, conscience, contemplation

They're called 'facts', and my role is to amplify those, not cheerlead. And I don't care at all what you think of my motives.

Glenn Greenwald

They're called 'facts', and my role is to amplify those, not cheerlead. And I don't care at all what you think of my motives.

Tags: 2012, dissent, facts, journalism, politics, principle, twitter

Many things in this period have been hard to bear, or hard to take seriously. My own profession went into a protracted swoon during the Reagan-Bush-Thatcher decade, and shows scant sign of recovering...

Christopher Hitchens

Many things in this period have been hard to bear, or hard to take seriously. My own profession went into a protracted swoon during the Reagan-Bush-Thatcher decade, and shows scant sign of recovering...

Tags: apoliticism, argument, atheism, berlin, bought priesthood, cape coloureds, cold war, communism, conviction, critical thinking

Say what you wish about media in the Arab world, but say it knowing that no media channel in the world is absolutely free.

Aysha Taryam

Say what you wish about media in the Arab world, but say it knowing that no media channel in the world is absolutely free.

Tags: arab, arab media, arab spring, freedom, freedom of the press, journalism, mass media, media bias, media journalism, media studies

Rolf Ekeus came round to my apartment one day and showed me the name of the Iraqi diplomat who had visited the little West African country of Niger: a statelet famous only for its production of yellow...

Christopher Hitchens

Rolf Ekeus came round to my apartment one day and showed me the name of the Iraqi diplomat who had visited the little West African country of Niger: a statelet famous only for its production of yellow...

Tags: baath party, baathism, baathist iraq, baghdad, bbc, corruption, damascus, diplomacy, george w bush, gordon correa

Freedom of the press is guaranteed only to those who own one.

A. J. Liebling

Freedom of the press is guaranteed only to those who own one.

Tags: freedom, politics, newspapers, journalism, press, guaranteed

I had become too accustomed to the pseudo-Left new style, whereby if your opponent thought he had identified your lowest possible motive, he was quite certain that he had isolated the only real one. T...

Christopher Hitchens

I had become too accustomed to the pseudo-Left new style, whereby if your opponent thought he had identified your lowest possible motive, he was quite certain that he had isolated the only real one. T...

Tags: argumentation, fallacy, journalism, leftism

Journalism is not a precise science, it's a crude art

Dan Rather

Journalism is not a precise science, it's a crude art

Tags: ama, art, crude, journalism, media, media journalism, reddit, school shooting, science, shooting