“Recall that the United Nations commissioned Arab scholars and analysts to publish the Arab Human Development Report. What causes the backwardness, the scholars wondered, of 22 Arab states, covering nearly 300 million people? Their conclusion? Of all world regions, the Arab countries scored the lowest in freedom, media independence, civil liberties, political process and political rights.” PeopleWorldHumansCountryStatesPoliticalNationsCausesProcessUnitedLibertyMillionsRightsMediaDevelopmentIndependenceConclusionReportsRegionsScholarRecallsLowestUnited NationsPublishCoveringCivil LibertiesHuman DevelopmentAnalystsPolitical Rights Author:Larry Elder
“I believe there is a limit beyond which free speech cannot go, but it's a limit that's very seldom mentioned. It's the point where free speech begins to collide with the right to privacy. I don't think there are any other conditions to free speech. I've got a right to say and believe anything I please, but I haven't got a right to press it on anybody else. .... Nobody's got a right to be a nuisance to his neighbors.” ThinkingBelieveI BelieveFreedomLibertyRightsConditionsMediaHavensPleaseLimitsSpeechConstitutionPressesNeighborTolerancePrivacyFree SpeechNuisanceCollideRight To Privacy Author:H. L. Mencken
“The liberty of the press would be an empty sound, and no man would venture to write on any subject, however, pure his purpose, without an attorney at one elbow and a counsel at the other. From minds thus subdued by the fear of punishment, there could issue no works of genius to expand the empire of human reason.” MenWritingMindHumansReasonWould BeLawPurposeSoundLibertyIssuesSubjectsMediaCrimeGeniusPureSpeechEmptyConstitutionPressesPunishmentEmpiresVenturePersecutionAttorneyElbowsHuman Reason Author:Thomas Erskine, 1st Baron Erskine
“The free press is the mother of all our liberties and of our progress under liberty.” MotherFreedomLibertyProgressMediaPressesFree Press Author:Adlai E. Stevenson
“This is the deadening consensus that crosses party lines, that dominates our major media, and that is strangling the liberty and prosperity that were once the birthright of Americans. Dissenters who tell their fellow citizens what is really going on are subject to smear campaigns that, like clockwork, are aimed at the political heretic. Truth is treason in the empire of lies.” PoliticalLyingLinesPartyLibertySubjectsMediaCitizensTruth IsMajorsCrossesFellowsProsperityCampaignsEmpiresConsensusTreasonBirthrightHereticClockworkStranglingSmear Campaigns Author:Ron Paul
“The media assume that if your life or liberty is on the line and you have a lot of money, you automatically get the best.” IfsLinesLibertyMediaAssumingLots Of Money Author:Vincent Bugliosi