The media provide us with friend and enemy images. The critical recipients question these and the clever ones see through which topics are intended to conceal the true interests of some lobbies.

Sir, I don’t share your opinion, but I would bet my life that you are allowed to express it.

Anyone who talks about the media as the fourth estate in the state is mistaken. Today, the media are plaintiff, judge and executioner all in one.

The most reliable difference between the individual television programs is still the weather report.

It is no coincidence that wherever the spirit is seen as a danger, books are the first to be banned, newspapers and magazines, radio reports are subjected to strict censorship; between the lines, on that tiny final line of the printer, you can pile up enough dynamite to blow up worlds.

Today, censorship takes place through the media.

You rejoice in the power of the press – do you never dread its tyranny?

Name me a country where journalists and politicians get along and I’ll tell you it’s not a democracy.