Salman Rushdie Quotes

An average of more than one journalist a week has been killed for reasons connected to his or her work.

It's totally mistaken to suppose that an armed escort is going to give a journalist any protection - on the contrary, journalists who turn up surrounded by armed personnel are just turning themselves into targets and in even worse danger.

We have to protect all journalists, and journalists have to be allowed to do their jobs.

After the fall of the Soviet Union, if you start the clock, then 47 journalists, reporters, cameramen, photographers have been killed in Russia since the fall of communism. That makes it the third most deadly country on Earth to practice journalism. That's not a record to be proud of.

I think of journalists as being bullet-proof in a way.

I would give back every single award to be able to actually do our jobs as journalists without this kind of harassment.

Historically, war journalists have embedded themselves with one side, which means the greatest threat comes from the clearly delineated enemy of that side.

Journalism is the protection between people and any sort of totalitarian rule. That's why my hero, admittedly a flawed one, is a journalist.

I would never let myself knock out a journalist.

Journalism has a special, hallowed place for stories of its practitioners' persecution.

Judy Miller is the most innocent person in this case. I really thought that was outrageous that she was jailed and we needed as journalists to draw a line in the sand in a strong but thoughtful way.

The recent history of Ukraine is replete with dead journalists, beaten journalists, news agencies being shut down, and politicians being injured or killed. Most are killed in mysterious auto accidents.

Clearly independent journalists - domestic journalists - run a high risk if they dare to take on serious investigative work.

The second is the damage to the credibility and independence of a free press which may be caused by covert relationships with the U.S. journalists and media organizations.

We journalists in America take it for granted that we are not going to be killed for our work. Unfortunately, this is not true elsewhere in the world.

The best definition of journalism I have heard; to challenge authority - all authority - especially so when governments and politicians take us to war, when they have decided that they will kill and others will die.

Turkey still has one of the highest number of imprisoned journalists in the world.

Journalists run many risks. It comes with the profession.

We need journalists to be fearless and hold power to account.

Would that it were so! ... That the American military were targeting journalists.

The fourth estate which if not well looked to, will turn us all out of doors.

I deplore with you, the putrid state into which our newspapers have passed, and the malignity, the vulgarity, and mendacious spirit of those who write for them.... As vehicles of information, and a curb on our functionaries, they have rendered themselves useless, by forfeiting all title to belief.

It is the business of the journalist … to stand in permanent Opposition.

Journalists follow authority as sharks follow a liner, dining on the scraps that are thrown overboard.

The press was protected so that it could bare the secrets of government and inform the people. Only a free and unrestrained press can effectively expose deception in government.