Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quoteShare via Email Print this Page Daily Quotes Archives2006-02-16 Feb 16, 2006The first duty of a newspaper is to be accurate. If it is accurate, it follows that it is fair.~ Herbert B. SwopeAn able, disinterested, public-spirited press, with trained intelligence to know the right and courage to do it, can preserve that public virtue without which popular government is a sham and a mockery. A cynical, mercenary, demagogic press will produce in time a people as base as itself.~ Joseph PulitzerIn the United States there is no phenomenon more threatening to popular government than the unwillingness of newspapers to give the facts to their readers.~ Nelson Antrim Crawford Feb 15, 2006The media I've had a lot to do with is lazy. We fed them and they ate it every day.~ Michael DeaverIt is a general popular error to suppose the loudest complainers for the public to be the most anxious for its welfare.~ Edmund BurkeThere is danger in the concentration of control in the television and radio networks, especially in the large television and radio stations; danger in the concentration of ownership in the press…and danger in the increasing concentration of selection by book publishers and reviewers and by the producers of radio and television programs.~ Eugene McCarthy Feb 14, 2006The bigger the information media, the less courage and information they allow. Bigness means weakness.~ Eric SevareidThere is no such thing ... in America as an independent press.~ John Swinton Feb 13, 2006I am far from denying that newspapers in democratic countries lead citizens to do very ill-considered things in common; but without newspapers there would be hardly any common action at all. So they mend many more ills than they cause.~ Alexis de TocquevilleIf newsmen do not tell the truth as they see it because it might make waves, or if their bosses decide something should or should not be broadcast because of Washington or Main Street consequences, we have dishonored ourselves and we have lost the First Amendment by default.~ Richard SalantNothing can now be believed which is seen in a newspaper. Truth itself becomes suspicious by being put into that polluted vehicle.~ Thomas Jefferson Feb 10, 2006The writer is the Faust of modern society, the only surviving individualist in a mass age. To his orthodox contemporaries he seems a semi-madman.~ Boris PasternakIt is the rare fortune of these days that one may think what one likes and say what one thinks.~ Cornelius TacitusThe American’s conviction that he must be able to look any man in the eye and tell him to go to hell is the very essence of the free man’s way of life.~ Walter Lippmann Previous week's quotes Next week's quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print