622 Quotes About Journalism

She's an Assad TOADY!..... Joe: What does that mean?... Joe: before we say that about her, we should probably read it...

Unanimity makes me itchy. It almost always hides a grave. I started digging.

I am a professional humorist, and objectively the third most critically acclaimed British stand-up comedian of the twenty-first century. If I write a stupid thing, on some level I invite you to assume it was deliberate, and that I have, to some extent, created a secondary "columnist" persona, in which I take on the role of the sort of person who would write the absurd things that I am writing, such as this sentence for example.

Independence of the media, freedom of the press, freedom of expression and the right of access to information are vital if the media are to be able to perform their watchdog function in a democratic society governed by the rule of law.

If the media are to carry out their role as a fourth power in society, the necessary framework must be in place, including legislation that protects the confidentiality of sources and does not allow censorship.

The trouble with free speech is that it insists on living up to its name.

No custodian of the truth should have to fear their deliverance of the facts.

Journalism can be lethal

How the press, for example, loves to brag to its victims— its readers—about its freedom. Yes, the press may be free to lie and distort and suppress and deceive and malign, but is it free to tell the truth?