Arthur Miller Quotes

To conclude: good journalism is one of the models of good conversation and communication in the wider social context.

Journalist, in my opinion, are mediators between the Information Age and our democracy.

The journalistic traits that are valued on TV and radio talk shows are destructive to democracy.

I don't have any well-developed philosophy about journalism. Ultimately it is important in a society like this, so people can know about everything that goes wrong.

I think people should be consumers of journalism.

I am grateful to journalism for waking me up to the realities of the world.

The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything. Except what is worth knowing. Journalism, conscious of this, and having tradesman-like habits, supplies their demands.

[Commenting on Shays' Rebellion:] The way to prevent these regular interpositions of the people is to give them full information of their affairs thro' the channel of the public papers, and to contrive that those papers should penetrate the whole mass of the people.

Most of us probably feel we couldn't be free without newspapers, and that is the real reason we want the newspapers to be free.

I am not so much concerned with the right of everyone to say anything he pleases as I am about our need as a self-governing people to hear everything relevant

The newspaper is in all its literalness the bible of democracy, the book out of which a people determines its conduct

Journalism is what we need to make democracy work.

No one needs to tell me about the importance of the free press in a democratic society or about the essential role a newspaper can play in its community.

We need the media as the foundation of functioning institutions.

I was drawn to journalism as a young guy because I felt like there was some purpose to it, not always but sometimes.

That endless book, the newspaper, is our national glory.

The job of the press is to encourage debate, not to supply the public with information.

I have always been of the opinion that the right kind of journalism is a critical part of our democracy.

The better the information it has, the better democracy works. Silence and secrecy are never good for it.

America is strong because its journalism is strong. That's how democracies work. They're only as good as the quality of the information that the public possesses. And that is where we come in.

We are in a democratic society. It's our job to question.

Journalism is irrepressible. It can't be taken away.

There are a lot of really good skills you get from doing journalism - it completely changed my world and how I interact with other people.

As you have fewer and fewer voices in a democracy, in a free society, it's not good to limit the number of voices.

The people currently in charge have forgotten the first principle of an open society, namely that we may be wrong and that there has to be free discussion. That it's possible to be opposed to the policies without being unpatriotic.