Journalism Responsibility Quotes

If I have news and sit on it I'm not doing my job.

The press is called the Fourth Estate. It is definitely a power, but, to misuse that power is criminal.

A news organization has a much different responsibility. I might not be telling you the whole story. I might not be telling you a story in a manner that is properly sophisticated.

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

have a lot of respect for the responsibility that journalists have to ask tough questions, to hold the administration accountable and to be advocates for the citizens of the United States.

The responsibility that I feel is to do as good a job as a journalist as I can possibly do.

We have rights in America. In tandem with those rights, we have responsibility. Whatever type of journalist we are, whether it be in the entertainment business, or as professional journalists, we always have the consequences of the way we present fact and information.

Going to where the silence is. That is the responsibility of a journalist: giving a voice to those who have been forgotten, forsaken, and beaten down by the powerful.

People shouldn't expect the mass media to do investigative stories. That job belongs to the 'fringe' media.