Free Press Quotes
Words in defense of a free press.
These quotes treat a free press as democracy's cornerstone, not an abstraction, an institution worth defending in the words of journalists and public figures who did exactly that. See our Democracy quotes for more.
Flaws and all, I believe the free press is our country's most important institution - one I am more than happy to defend. One I did, in fact, defend for 37 years.
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.
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The ability of the press to print their stories without the government trying to get them to betray their sources is as essential to a free press as the ink it is printed with. Otherwise, who will hold accountable those...
So this guy, Jeff Johnson, who is an accountant who cares nothing at all about a free press and cares nothing about journalism, he's a right winger who supported the war, you know, who two years ago told people he...
Ability Quotes
The press doesn't stop publishing, by the way, in a fascist escalation; it simply watches what it says. That too can be an incremental process, and the pace at which the free press polices itself depends on how journalists are...
I tell you, in my opinion, the cornerstone of democracy is free press - that's the cornerstone.
The president is supposed to stand up for the First Amendment and stand up for the free press - not put us through the meat grinder.
Paramount among the responsibilities of a free press is the duty to prevent any part of the government from deceiving the people and sending them off to distant lands to die of foreign fevers and foreign shot and shell.
The Founding Fathers gave the free press the protection it must have to bare the secrets of government and inform the people.
Bad Quotes
The second is the damage to the credibility and independence of a free press which may be caused by covert relationships with the U.S. journalists and media organizations.
One of the unsung freedoms that go with a free press is the freedom not to read it.
What I'm thinking about more and more these days is simply the importance of transparency, and Jefferson's saying that he'd rather have a free press without a government than a government without a free press.
When the public's right to know is threatened, and when the rights of free speech and free press are at risk, all of the other liberties we hold dear are endangered.
A free press can, of course, be good or bad, but, most certainly without freedom, the press will never be anything but bad.
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