Mahatma Gandhi Quotes

The most important responsibility we have as journalists is to question those who are in power. I honestly believe that.

To newspapers and publishing houses I urge the use of fact over fiction, freedom of the press, and responsibility at all times.

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

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.

The press is supposed to watch the powerful. And not throw in with them.

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

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

I have great respect for the news and great respect for freedom of the press and all of that.

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

The press has become the greatest power within the Western countries, exceeding that of the legislature, the executive, and the judiciary. Yet one would like to ask: According to what law has it been elected and to whom is it responsible? In the Communist East, a journalist is frankly appointed as a state official. But who has voted Western journalists into their positions of power, for how long a time, and with what prerogatives?

The media has become more forceful, has begun to recognize its traditional historic role and act on it, and truth is infectious.

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

The rules are all wrong today. The mandate of the media really does pre-date the founding of the United States.

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

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

I respect very much the role of the media in our society; I think they can be very, very helpful. They serve as a very useful check, sort of a watchdog over the actions of the government, and I respect that.

It is the role of good journalism to take on powerful abusers, and when powerful abusers are taken on, there's always a bad reaction. So we see that controversy, and we believe that is a good thing to engage in.

When a reporter sits down at the typewriter, he's nobody's friend.

I happen to believe that any legitimate news organization in the world would do that interview. And if the United States is going to be a proponent of a free press, it has to walk the walk.

The newspapers, magazines and other journals of the country, it is safe to say, have shed and continue to shed, more light on the public and business affairs of, the nation than any other instrumentality of public; and since informed public opinion is the most potent of all restraints upon misgovernment, the suppression or abridgment of the publicity afforded by a free press cannot be regarded otherwise than with grave concern.

In America the president reigns for four years, and journalism governs for ever and ever.

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.

Burke said there were three estates in Parliament; but in the reporter's gallery yonder, there sat a fourth estate more important far than they all.

We do not need a censorship of the press. We have a censorship by the press.