Alexander Solschenizyn | die Presse zur grössten Macht geworden ist in der westlichen Welt

"Es ist so, dass die Presse zur grössten Macht geworden ist in der westlichen Welt, mächtiger als der Gesetzgeber, die Regierung und die Justiz. Man möchte fragen, von wem sie gewählt wurde und wem sie Rechenschaft schuldet?"

Alexander Solschenizyn

"Hastiness and superficiality are the psychic disease of the 20th century and more than anywhere else this disease is reflected in the press. Such as it is, however, the press has become the greatest power within the Western countries, more powerful than the legislative power, the executive, and the judiciary. And one would then like to ask: By what law has it been elected and to whom is it responsible? In the communist East a journalist is frankly appointed as a state official. But who has granted Western journalists their power, for how long a time, and with what prerogatives?"