However vile the abuse they receive, media people must remember this is part of the price of getting a public voice. Stay grateful. Don't kick down, kick up. Criticise power rather than proles.
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It is the role of good journalism to take on powerful abusers, and when powerful abusers are taken on, there's always a bad reaction. So we see that controversy, and we believe that is a good thing to engage in.
The job of the press is to speak truth to power. And yet, for doing our job, we are persecuted. I say that these aggressive and illegal tactics to silence us - inventing arbitrary legal interpretations, over-zealous charges and disproportionate sentences - must not be permitted to succeed.
One of the problems with defending free speech is you often have to defend people that you find to be outrageous and unpleasant and disgusting.
The truth is that the more responsible the media outlet, the more responsive they are to constructive criticism.
At least in the West, politicians, corporations and media moguls can no longer take for granted their power to control the public discourse - and have it go unchallenged.
Every time you touch those who have power over the media, they seek to stop you.
It is a remarkably easy thing to do, pointing out the faults of others and suggesting remedies or courses of action in an argumentative and pedantic sort of way, and I am still amazed that there are many people in the American media who are paid very big money to do this.
I think the media are so hypocritical a lot of the time in the way they chastise something just so that they can print it again.
It is really the angling in the media that I do not like. That is how media can be rotten.
The British press has been unfair to me and the public has followed.
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