Jorge Ramos Quotes
As journalists, we cannot swallow the official line without question. We should challenge almost everything that dictators, presidents and officials say.
Ramos, Jorge. Take a Stand: Lessons from Rebels. Penguin Books, 2016.
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Ironically politicians need the journalists to communicate their message adn get public exposure and the Journalists need the politicians to provide subject matter and to serve as sources. Each uses the other which produces resentment.
This statement demonstrates the transformation from the Communist era where the press was considered simply as another organ of the state. Before that, it was an instrument of the Czar. This is one of the world’s most firm statements of journalistic independence although recent Russian regimes have moved to limit journalistic independence.
Otehr members of the Trump staff then started to echo the notion and it became common in Trumpian circles.
Jorge Gilberto Ramos Ávalos is a Mexican-American journalist and author. Regarded as the best-known Spanish-language news anchor in the United States of America, he has been referred to as "The Walter Cronkite of Latin America". Based in Miami, Florida, he anchors the Univision news television program Noticiero Univision, the Univision Sunday-morning political news program Al Punto, and the Fusion TV English-language program America with Jorge Ramos. He has covered five wars, and events ranging from the fall of the Berlin Wall to the War in Afghanistan.
