David Cameron Quotes

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

Journalism has a check-and-balance effect to those in power, and those in power submitted themselves to it.

We don't go into journalism to be popular. It is our job to seek the truth and put constant pressure on our leaders until we get answers.

The most effective check and balance on government has been an independent press which maintains its credibility by ensuring that its criticism is balanced and based on fact - based indeed on solid journalistic work.

Holding our own government to account for the use of its power is, in my view, the highest mission of a U.S. news organization.

When journalists forget that our job is to question and annoy those in power, there can be huge consequences.

The media does play a vital role in our democracy, and if we cannot depend on journalistic ethics, the nation's in trouble.

I am a passionate believer in freedom of speech. I would not support anything which would impinge on aggressive robust freedom of the British press, but when things go wrong and there has been outright illegality, there should be proper accountability.

I have always thought it morally unacceptable to kill stories, not to run stories, that people have risked their lives to get.

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

The journalist observes the laws of his country, but when the fulfillment of his professional duty is concerned he recognizes the jurisdiction of his colleagues only, and rejects any attempts of pressure and interference from the side of the government or whoever else.

The press must be free; it has always been so and much evil has been corrected by it. If Government finds itself annoyed by it, let it examine its own conduct and it will find the cause.

We are a better country because the press gets 1000 facts right every day.

One of the roles of the press is to make sure that the president, in the voice of the people, is telling the truth.

The job of media is the accountability of government.

The press is the only institution that is truly accountable. The founding fathers put the First Amendment first for a reason.

The point of journalism is to hold people in positions of power accountable.

I'm not a critic, I'm a journalist. I'm doing my job holding the government to account.

have a lot of respect for the responsibility that journalists have to ask tough questions, to hold the administration accountable and to be advocates for the citizens of the United States.

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

The role of the press and the protections which we afford it are today more important than ever before, because we dwell in a society where belief in our governments and in the strength of our institutions is declining.

I have long been a supporter of a free and independent press and I always will be. But with freedom comes responsibility.

The press was to serve the governed, not the governors.

Newspapers, television networks, and magazines have sometimes been outrageously abusive, untruthful, arrogant, and hypocritical. But it hardly follows that elimination of a strong and independent press is the way to eliminate abusiveness . . .

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