David Brock Quotes

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

Well, thank God for a media that will ask questions.

You can criticize any news staff in some ways, but the one thing that you couldn't call the Village Voice staff was a staff of stenographers, taking notes from public figures and just passing them on.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

When journalists forget that our job is to question and annoy those in power, there can be huge consequences.

Journalists should think of themselves as outside the Establishment, and owners can't be too worried about what they're told at their country clubs.

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.

I have always thought it morally unacceptable to kill stories, not to run stories, that people have risked their lives to get.

One of the most important roles of our journalists is to be watchdogs.

I don't personally feel that I have to save democracy and journalism.

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

The job of a political correspondent is the challenge the people in power. If you are in power, I will challenge you.

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 day that I spearheaded the passage of America Fast Forward... the newspaper of record did not put it in the newspaper; what they put was my breakup with my ex-girlfriend. I took umbrage with that. A great newspaper ought to be printing things that people care about, issues that people care about.

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.

I am a big believer in the power of journalism; it's a heroic pursuit.

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.

There is no democracy without journalism.