Harris Faulkner Quotes

The duty of the media is to observe truth and social responsibility.

I think the media needs a little criticizing now, as it did in the '80s, don't you?

I am not here to accuse the media of anything.

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

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.

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.

All the media are horrible.

The media doesn't need a conscience; people need consciences.

I don't owe the media anything.

The great tension in media has always been that freedom and quality are conflicting goals.

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

I'm very much in support of the free press, but the free press ought to be educational and informative. And I believe they have fallen down recently on that.

The Times has much less power than you think. I believe we attribute power to the media generally that it simply doesn't have. It's very convenient to blame the media, the same way we blame television for everything that's going wrong in society.

As far as the media is concerned, I wouldn't shoot anything down.

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

The press these days should be rather careful about its role. We may have acquired some tendencies about over-involvement that we had better overcome.

One of the most powerful defences the media can offer for controversial actions is, of course, public interest.

I apologize for what the media has done.

It’s always a danger when an institution like the press becomes disconnected from the people.

American newspapers are so filthy and bestial that no honest man would admit one into his house for a water-closet doormat.

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

The chief danger which threatens the influence and honor of the press is the tendency of its liberty to degenerate into license.

The media is like the terrain and weather. It is a fact; it's nothing you can change. You have to learn to deal with it. And it isn't bad or good, it's just there. I don't think we should put limits on the press, unless it's for security reasons or for reasons of risk in the case of an operation. We value freedom of the press. It's something we are fighting for. It's part of the constitutional rights that we swear our allegiance to. We just have to accept it and learn to deal with it in a right way, and give and take.

Media creates awareness [and] ensures transparency and accountability.