Democracy Isn Quotes by Heather Brooke

Newspapers are not free and they never have been. They can appear to be so, but someone, somewhere is covering the costs whether that…

— Heather Brooke

In Britain, it's bred into you, the idea that you can't really change anything, so why bother. When I went to school in America,…

— Heather Brooke

There's a temptation not to vote at all as a protest, but it's definitely not a protest. In fact, all it does is keep…

— Heather Brooke

There are corporate private investigators, companies doing very forensic background checks on people. They buy data, they get their own data... They don't want…

— Heather Brooke

The hacker community may be small, but it possesses the skills that are driving the global economies of the future.

— Heather Brooke

If you don't think there is any value in the work I, or any other serious journalists do, then don't spend your money on…

— Heather Brooke

I trained as a journalist in America where paying sources is frowned upon. Now I work in the U.K. where there is a more…

— Heather Brooke

Democracy isn't just for people in the Middle East, but Britons, too.

— Heather Brooke

I like to write books and cause trouble.

— Heather Brooke

In whose interest is it to hype up the collapse of the Internet from a DDoS attack? Why, the people who provide cyber security…

— Heather Brooke

I pine for a return to the type of old-school journalism and the tough newspapermen and women of the Thirties.

— Heather Brooke

The movement towards radical transparency and accountability has been gaining steam for several decades.

— Heather Brooke

Traditional publishers require an author to submit a manuscript six months in advance, and if pressed, no later than two or three.

— Heather Brooke

I've always worked on the fringe of the British press establishment, carving out this niche for myself.

— Heather Brooke

A generation of people are being radicalised by the criminalisation of information sharing.

— Heather Brooke