Jonathan Demme Quotes

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

Journalism still, in a democracy, is the essential force to get the public educated and mobilized to take action on behalf of our ancient ideals.

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

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

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.

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

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

I don't have any well-developed philosophy about journalism. Ultimately it is important in a society like this, so people can know about everything that goes wrong.

I think people should be consumers of journalism.

The media is absolutely essential to the functioning of a democracy. It's not our job to cozy up to power. We're supposed to be the check and balance on government.

I don't believe that there's such a thing as objectivity in much of journalism, but I think there is a serious effort to and a regard for facts and into taking that stuff seriously is very important to the public discourse and it's very important to democracy.

Junk journalism is the evidence of a society that has got at least one thing right, that there should be nobody with the power to dictate where responsible journalism begins

Journalism is what we need to make democracy work.

The job of media is the accountability of government.

I've been in journalism my entire adult life and have often defended it against fellow conservatives who claim the news business is fundamentally corrupt.

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

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

The task of the media in a democracy is not to ease the path of those who govern, but to make life difficult for them by constant vigilance as to how they exercise the power they only hold in trust from the people.

The media's job is to question a premise.

There's no worse crime in journalism these days than simply deciding something's a story because Drudge links to it.

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.

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.

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

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

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