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“The present crisis of Western democracy is a crisis in journalism.”

Democracy Crisis Western Journalism

Author:Walter Lippmann

“I didn't know growing up what I wanted to do. I finally settled on broadcast journalism as a way to satisfy the urge to perform and also do something important, which is to give people in a democracy information to make good decisions.”

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Author:Mort Crim

“I dont personally feel that I have to save democracy and journalism.”

Feels Democracy Journalism

Author:Katharine Weymouth

“Without a serious study of journalism, there can be no understanding of citizenship, democracy, or community.”

Understanding Community Democracy Study Serious Journalism Citizenship

Author:Roy Peter Clark

“Journalism, like democracy, is not something that is achieved. It is a work in progress, and not every day is as good as the last.”

Lasts Democracy Progress Journalism Work In Progress

Author:John Maxwell Hamilton

“Journalism is one of the devices whereby industrial autocracy keeps its control over political democracy; it is the day-by-day, between-elections propaganda, whereby the minds of the people are kept in a state of acquiescence, so that when the crisis of an election comes, they go to the polls and cast their ballots for either one of the two candidates of their exploiters.”

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Book:The Brass Check: A Study of American Journalism

Source: The Brass Check: A Study of American Journalism

“The country is only as strong as its journalism - that's the way democracies work. The higher the quality of the information, the better informed the electorate is and the better the government runs.”

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Author:Scott Pelley

“A profound transformation is happening here. The framers of our nation never envisioned these huge media giants; never imagined what could happen if big government, big publishing and big broadcasters ever saw eye-to-eye in putting the public's need for news second to their own interests. I approach the end of my own long run believing more strongly than ever that the quality of journalism and the quality of democracy are inextricably joined ... .”

“It would be easy to descend into despair, not only about the state of journalism, but the future of American democracy. But giving up is not an option. There is too much at stake.”

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Author:Laurie Garrett

“We have got to nurture the spirit of independent journalism in this country, or we'll not save capitalism from its own excesses, and we'll not save democracy from its own inertia.”

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Author:Bill Moyers

“I really wasn't very involved politically with anything up until that point. Then I started reading about the second Palestinian Intifada, and I spoke to friends in activist and journalism circles. Then, somehow by complete luck, I ended up at Democracy Now.”

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Author:Sharif Abdel Kouddous

“I certainly don't mean to suggest that all investigative journalism prior to 9/11 in the US was praiseworthy. But there were more examples to which one could point, and there were at last some activist photographers who understood that getting information into the public sphere in spite of military censorship was a right and obligation within democracy. That strain in war journalism did nearly vanish during that time.”

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Author:Judith Butler

“The most important thing the giant philanthropies could do - Gates, Rockefeller, Ford, Open Society Institute, and new ones emerging - would be to create a $2-to-$3 billion Trust for Independent Journalism. They wouldn't miss the money, and democracy would still have a fighting chance because of their investment.”

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Author:Bill Moyers