Mahatma Gandhi Quotes

I would honor the man who give to his country a good newspaper.

We believe that the remedy to any harm resulting from press freedom lies in press freedom itself.

With "Good Night, and Good Luck," I think it's kind of obvious what [Truman Capote]'s getting at there, and the importance of how it's playing out today, that is journalism doing, are the journalists doing their job, are they being the other checks and balances in our country that the way that obviously Edward R. Murrow was back then.

The most obvious inspiration to be brave is that we all feel it: you can't have free expression right now in a very wide range of countries. It takes a lot of guts for writers and journalists in those countries to stand up against repression and do what they do. Russia is a case in point where, as you know, journalists have an embarrassing habit of being killed for their reporting.

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

Journalists should denounce government by public opinion polls.

Every war has seen unscrupulous reporters who are willing to hurt the national effort, even betray secrets, for the sake of a story…but it did no good to treat the press as enemies.

When the crisis at the core of our nation’s political decline is a direct attack on the truth, the institution that should take the lead in confronting and correcting that danger is the press.

It is a newspaper's duty to print the news and raise hell.

Reporters love this country too and they care about national security.

The censor is always quick to justify his function in terms that are protective of society. But the First Amendment, written in terms that are absolute, deprives the States of any power to pass on the value, the propriety, or the morality of a particular expression.

You hope the American people are fair. We recognize journalists have to kill somebody each week.

Newspapers in this country are famously independent of politics.

Our duty as journalists is to use our clarity - and our imagination - to build hope in the societies in which we work. Our duty is to keep holding power to account, and to fight for press freedom around the world.

The job of the press is to defend their institution, hold the government accountable and freely report and gather information.

Large newspapers are routinely censored by legal costs. It is time this stopped. It is time a country said, enough is enough, justice must be seen, history must be preserved, and we will give shelter from the storm.

The country is in some trouble, because the media, which is supposed to provide a check and balance on government, has decided to stop doing that as a collective entity.

The duty of a journalist is the duty of a watchman.

Journalism can never be silent: that is its greatest virtue and its greatest fault.

The tragedy of journalism is that these are people doing their best work.

If publishers and editors exert themselves to keep certain topics out of print, it is not because they are frightened of prosecution but because they are frightened of public opinion. In this country intellectual cowardice is the worst enemy a writer or journalist has to face, and that fact does not seem to me to have had the discussion it deserves.

Journalism is one set of tools - one toolkit I have. One vocabulary, one lens.

Journalism is kind of scary and of it we should be wary.

Journalists do not live by words alone, although sometimes they have to eat them.

With a free press comes a responsibility.