Richard Edelman Quotes

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

Media creates awareness [and] ensures transparency and accountability.

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

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

A good newspaper, I suppose, is a nation talking to itself.

Democracies succeed or fail based on their journalism.

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

The journalistic traits that are valued on TV and radio talk shows are destructive to democracy.

Television is the medium through which society communicates its democratic values.

Journalist, in my opinion, are mediators between the Information Age and our democracy.

Television is the medium through which 80 percent of the people see their leaders….They get all their information about their government and their leaders from television.

The media have disproportionate control of the information in our society.

The newspaper is in all its literalness the bible of democracy, the book out of which a people determines its conduct

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.

We must challenge this statement and this sentiment that the news media is the enemy of the American people. This sentiment may be the greatest threat to democracy in my lifetime.

No one needs to tell me about the importance of the free press in a democratic society or about the essential role a newspaper can play in its community.

The democratic system is challenged by the failure in television because our evening news programmes have gone for an attempt to entertain as much as to inform in the desperate fight for ratings.

A functional media is as important to democratic freedom as voting.

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

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

Our Republic and its press will rise or fall together.

We need a free media, not just freedom of speech.

I think it's important in a democracy such as ours that we have multiple sources to get news and information and utilize the media only if we want to get a different opinion.

If information and knowledge are central to democracy, they are conditions for development.

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