Ory Okolloh Quotes

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

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

I think that Twitter and YT and blogs are keeping media more honest. Everyone can be a journalist now. Everyone is a fact checker.

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

I think people should be consumers of journalism.

Journalism is what we need to make democracy work.

The media has not done a great job in fulfilling their role - journalism's role in a democracy is to provide information on profoundly important subjects so we're an informed citizenry.

Journalists have to call out and correct the lies and smears polluting the air waves.

I know there are reporters who ridicule pundits.

The media's job is to question a premise.

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

I don't trust a lot of journalists.

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.

Our emphasis on political coverage from the day we were born here was well-founded, and we believe there were opportunities there that we could do it in a more interesting, appealing and balanced way.

Whether people care enough about local news to pay for it is, sadly, an entirely different question than whether our democracy requires a strong watchdog function at the local level to ensure safeguards against abuse, chicanery, and outright dishonesty.

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

Journalism is what maintains democracy. It's the force for progressive social change.

In essence, I see the value of journalism as resting in a twofold mission: informing the public of accurate and vital information, and its unique ability to provide a truly adversarial check on those in power.

One of the most important disciplines in journalism is to challenge your working premises.

And I believe that good journalism, good television, can make our world a better place.

You can criticize any news staff in some ways, but the one thing that you couldn't call the Village Voice staff was a staff of stenographers, taking notes from public figures and just passing them on.

I just love when the Internet is wrong. It's the only thing that will save journalism.

Why does it appear that interested readers so often attribute flaws to 'the press' rather than taking particular issue with particular reports?

I do think the biggest problem newspapers have is loss of trust, and I feel that's a result of failure to speak truth to power.

I think if you look at the failure of journalism in the modern age, then I don't want to be called a journalist.