Jorge Ramos Quotes

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.

A key purpose of journalism is to provide an adversarial check on those who wield the greatest power by shining a light on what they do in the dark, and informing the public about those acts.

We need journalists to be fearless and hold power to account.

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

Our duty as journalists is to use our clarity - and our imagination - to build hope in the societies in which we work. Our duty is to keep holding power to account, and to fight for press freedom around the world.

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

I'm not a critic, I'm a journalist. I'm doing my job holding the government to account.

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

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.

Press freedom has great virtues. It is not about irresponsible scandal-mongering, although that may be part of the picture. It is a means of revealing wrongdoing.

Press freedom is not just about journalists, right? It's not just about us, it's not just about me, it's not just about Rappler. Press freedom is... the foundation of every single right of every single Filipino to the truth, so that we can hold the powerful to account.

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

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.

As Americans, we rightfully place tremendous value on having a free and independent press. Our role as journalists is to give voice to the voiceless, and hold our leaders and institutions accountable. But the circle is only completed when that information is consumed by a free-thinking and engaged audience.

If I'd written all the truth I knew for the past ten years, about 600 people - including me - would be rotting in prison cells from Rio to Seattle today. Absolute truth is a very rare and dangerous commodity in the context of professional journalism.

Holding our own government to account for the use of its power is, in my view, the highest mission of a U.S. news organization.

The power to mould the future of the Republic will be in the hands of the journalists of future generations.

Democracies succeed or fail based on their journalism.

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

Let's face it: WikiLeaks exists because the mainstream media haven't done their job.

The press is a watchdog. Not an attack dog. Not a lapdog. A watchdog. Now, a watchdog can't be right all the time. He doesn't bark only when he sees or smells something that's dangerous. A good watchdog barks at things that are suspicious.

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.

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.

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.