Jay Griffiths Quotes

We need a free media, not just freedom of speech.

Vigorous independent and critical media are indispensable in a democracy.

You can't have a free democracy if you don't have a free media that can provide vital and independent information to the people.

We need a free press. We must have it. It's vital.

I think it's important in a democracy such as ours that we have multiple sources to get news and information and utilize the media only if we want to get a different opinion.

The media does play a vital role in our democracy, and if we cannot depend on journalistic ethics, the nation's in trouble.

In emerging democracies like Russia, in authoritarian states like Iran or even Yugoslavia, journalists play a vital role in civil society. In fact, they form the very basis of those new democracies and civil societies.

A free and truly independent press - fiercely independent when necessary - is the red beating heart of freedom and democracy.

Junk journalism is the evidence of a society that has got at least one thing right, that there should be nobody with the power to dictate where responsible journalism begins

Let the People Rule!

The state must protect the media. In a democracy, the role of media is very important. In the absence of a credible opposition party, you can rely on the media.

There is nothing more important to a democracy than an active and engaged press.

The democratic system is challenged by the failure in television because our evening news programmes have gone for an attempt to entertain as much as to inform in the desperate fight for ratings.

The increasing diversification of media ecosystems after decades of state control, along with new digital tools that allow for greater citizen engagement, have led to a dramatic reshaping of the dynamics between citizens, media, and government.

Freedom of the press underpins free societies around the world.

I developed an interest in supporting independent journalists in a way that leverages their work to the greatest extent possible, all in support of the public interest.

Without freedom of the press, there can be no representative government.

I'm very much in support of the free press, but the free press ought to be educational and informative. And I believe they have fallen down recently on that.

A free, analytical and questioning press must be helped survive.

If voting changed anything, they'd make it illegal.

Elections are an enduring spectacle of free India, and have provided foreign journalists with the opportunity to remind the world that India remains the world's largest democracy.

Freedom of the press is not an end in itself but a means to the end of achieving a free society.

I do not believe 'Newsweek' is the only catcher in the rye between democracy and ignorance, but I think we're one of them, and I don't think there are that many on the edge of that cliff.

Every citizen has to figure out what kind of government he or she wants.

I think it is absolutely essential in a democracy to have competition in the media, a lot of competition, and we seem to be moving away from that.