Stephanie Grisham Quotes

The power to mould the future of the Republic will be in the hands of the journalists of future generations.

They take journalism really seriously because they know the force that it is and can be.

There is much to be said in favour of modern journalism. By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.

The newspaper is a moral force second only to the church. It is a political power superior to parties. It is an instrument of justice coequal with the court.

Today the greatest evil—and therefore the most immediate—is the press.

The papers feed the public interest but then the public interest demands more in the press and speculation can look like fact.

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

Journalism: A profession whose business is to explain to others what it personally does not understand.

I've always been a big consumer of American journalism over the years and had an interest in the history of it and of the press in America; how it has changed.

The democratic approach to news is a very valuable thing. We're always going to be dependent on the quality of reporting of mainstream media.

My own view, there is a need for and a demonstrated need for more journalism now than there ever has been.

Maybe it is because of Facebook or something else, but I have been interested in journalism for a long time.

Media is just a word that has come to mean bad journalism.

We in the media should be breaking the news and not making the news.

How united would the United States be without its newspapers?

I am interested in the press and what they do.

Let me go back to a fundamental thing we all used to agree on: information is power. That's why we became journalists in the first place.

The media has become more forceful, has begun to recognize its traditional historic role and act on it, and truth is infectious.

I think there are a lot of reasons to be critical of the media in America.

I think journalism is a great way to do public service, to have an impact on your community.

Its attitude, which it has preached and practiced, is skepticism. Now, it finds, the public is applying that skepticism to the press.

I have been reading the press more regularly than others over 50 years and it seems to me that there are things that have changed in the press that have changed its character.

We journalists tell the public which way the cat is jumping. The public will take care of the cat.

The duty of the media is to observe truth and social responsibility.

The press is our chief ideological weapon.