Peter Brimelow Quotes

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

Politicians are there to try to deal with stuff, but sometimes it's both fortunate and unfortunate that people like us have more... not involvement, but more power in the stuff that we say.

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

Whatever may be said about the power of the press, it is undeniable that it can set the entire public thinking and talking about any topic ...

I think there's a difference between calling people out and understanding the role that the press plays in a free society.

Journalism is a way of voicing opinion, of participating in the political, social, or cultural debate.

It is precisely the purpose of the public opinion generated by the press to make the public incapable of judging, to insinuate into it the attitude of someone irresponsible, uninformed.

I am satisfied that all politicians were meant to be journalists and all journalists meant to be politicians.

Being a reporter is at the very core of a democracy, being a free person in a free society.

To say that the newspaper press represents public opinion is to administer insult to intelligent men. It is the property of speculators, political leaders, large contractors and railway directors.

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

People who write letters to the editor are idiots.

Theodore Roosevelt ... had become uneasy at the effect on the public of the periodical press's increasing criticisms and investigations of business and political abuses

All people have the duty and the right to participate in public debate.

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.

There is no weapon stronger than the press.

Today enormous effort goes into convincing the American public that we're just consumers of media manipulation and sound-bites and spin doctors. That we care only about ourselves, money, and stuff. That acting out of passion and conviction doesn't make a difference. But all history shows that it does.

Democracy makes us articulate our views, defend them, and refine them.

A good newspaper, I suppose, is a nation talking to itself.

There's nothing that you can say in the paper that should affect you.

I certainly think it's very important that writers as citizens - not necessarily as writers, but just as ordinary citizens - should talk about things that matter to them.

Useless knowledge can be made directly contributory to a force of sound and disinterested public opinion.

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

The gallery in which the reporters sit has become a fourth estate of the realm.