“All over the world, wherever there are capitalists, freedom of the press means freedom to buy up newspapers, to buy writers, to bribe, buy and fake “public opinion” for the benefit of the bourgeoisie.”

“In my opinion, any man who can afford to buy a newspaper should not be allowed to own one.”

“The public buys its opinions as it buys its meat, or takes in its milk, on the principle that it is cheaper to do this than to keep a cow. So it is, but the milk is more likely to be watered.”

“Money buys you the freedom to live your life the way you want.”

“Frankly, despite my distaste of the press, I'd love to rise from the grave every ten years or so and go buy a few newspapers.”

“[on buying a private island] Money doesn't buy you happiness, but it buys you a big enough yacht to sail right up to it.”

“Since the working-class lives from hand to mouth, it buys as long as it has the means to buy.”

“Roger: It’s a little more freedom, sort of, but it’s more work, too, to keep up with all the little things. It’s kinda worth it, I guess; nobody really buys CDs so it really doesn’t matter.”

“We think we have got freedom of the press. When one millionaire has ten newspapers and ten million people have no newspapers—that is not freedom of the press.”

“Freedom of the Press,
if it means anything at all,
means the freedom
to criticize and oppose”