Media Independence Quotes

I think as journalists, we have to keep our distance from power.

Freedom of the news media must be subordinated to the overriding needs of Singapore, and to the primacy of purpose of an elected government.

I don't think the news department will have to lie down and play dead like it has in the past. By and large the network has been understanding, but then so have I.

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

I believe a journalist needs to be free to ask the questions he or she deems relevant, without constraints from others.

A free, analytical and questioning press must be helped survive.

Absolute freedom of the press to discuss public questions is a foundation stone of American liberty.

As a conservative who believes in limited government, I believe the only check on government power in real time is a free and independent press. A free press ensures the flow of information to the public, and let me say, during a time when the role of government in our lives and in our enterprises seems to grow every day--both at home and abroad - ensuring the vitality of a free and independent press is more important than ever.

The journalist observes the laws of his country, but when the fulfillment of his professional duty is concerned he recognizes the jurisdiction of his colleagues only, and rejects any attempts of pressure and interference from the side of the government or whoever else.

Vigorous independent and critical media are indispensable in a democracy.

If a newspaper is to be of real service to the public, it must have a big circulation: first, because its news and its comments must reach the largest possible number of people; second, because circulation means advertising, and advertising means money, and money means independence.

I knew I wanted to be a journalist ever since I was a teenager. While it is interesting and gratifying to be on the business side and to see how that all works, the main reason I kept a business role here was to protect the editorial integrity of Salon.

The press should form a fortress of steel round the republic. The republic has a right to demand this from journalists. The struggle is not over; the press has a duty to convey this truth to the nation and safeguard its unity.

A free press is one of the pillars of democracy.

The press don't wake up in the morning simply to be a mouthpiece for pols - they're out to uncover and expose news. That often is at odds with what politicians are setting out to do - it's both symbiotic and antagonistic. They need each other, they work in concert with one another, they work against one another.

A free press is the immune system of representative democracy.

As a conservative who believes in limited government, I believe the only check on government power in real time is a free and independent press.

The Government's power to censor the press was abolished so that the press would remain forever free to censure the Government. The press was protected so that it could bare the secrets of government and inform the people. Only a free and unrestrained press can effectively expose deception in government.

I get to hear the really good or the really bad things in the press, but I don't read it. I can afford to say that because public opinion does not drive U2's audience.

A free press is not a privilege but an organic necessity in a great society. ... A great society is simply a big and complicated urban society.

The one thing that is absolutely essential is that there shouldn't be any governmental control [of the media] directly or indirectly.

Freedom of the press is perhaps the freedom that has suffered the most from the gradual degradation of the idea of liberty.

A free and truly independent press - fiercely independent when necessary - is the red beating heart of freedom and democracy.

It's nice that HBO is in business with the audience and not with the advertisers. There's a difference.

A free press is not a privilege but an organic necessity in a great society. Without criticism and reliable and intelligent reporting, the government cannot govern. For there is no adequate way in which it can keep itself informed about what the people of the country are thinking and doing and wanting.