Katharine Graham Quotes

I used to think the press was a necessary evil and now I don't think it is. I think it's something you choose.

I take a grave view of the press. It is the weak slat under the bed of democracy.

We in the media should be breaking the news and not making the news.

The press are scum.

We in the media accept the responsibility of what we do.

Journalism: A profession whose business is to explain to others what it personally does not understand.

Given what the media have put the country through this past decade, it must come as a surprise to most Americans that the press has a code of ethics.

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

If I had my choice I would kill every reporter in the world, but I am sure we would be getting reports from Hell before breakfast.

The concept that the press is an organ of government policy dies hard.

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

The fault I find with most American newspapers is not the absence of dissent. it is the absence of news.

A journalists's job is not to be balanced. It is to be accurate.

The press has become the greatest power within the Western countries, more powerful than the legislature, the executive and the judiciary. One would then like to ask: by what law has it been elected and to whom is it responsible?

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.

The press has a right to go out and write stories... but I think similarly, and what Donald Trump has proven... is that when people are wrong, he's going to hold them accountable, and he's going to correct the record.

I hate journalists. I don't trust them.

Most journalists are idiots.

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

I have never quite grasped the worry about the power of the press. After all, it speaks with a thousand voices, in constant dissonance.

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

The British press are a group of unremitting scumbags. And sometimes they use that scumbaggery to good ends, and often not.

The media's job is to question a premise.

People think I've got a problem with the press. Actually I have no problem with the press, but just like in football there are a handful who cause problems because they're disrespectful, they're lazy, and above all - and this is what really gets to me - they haven't worked hard to get there.

We in the press, by our power, can actually undermine leadership.