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The media is absolutely essential to the functioning of a democracy. It's not our job to cozy up to power. We're supposed to be…

— Amy Goodman

The media has not done a great job in fulfilling their role - journalism's role in a democracy is to provide information on profoundly…

— Jonathan Demme

The media is tremendously important for all governments that are able to communicate through the it. It doesn't mean there is a balance of…

— Stephen Harper

Journalism is what we need to make democracy work.

— Walter Cronkite

The reality is that the media are probably the most powerful of all our institutions today and they, or rather we [journalists], too often…

— Carl Bernstein

We have rights in America. In tandem with those rights, we have responsibility. Whatever type of journalist we are, whether it be in the…

— Mike Pence

Freedom of the press is not just important to democracy, it is democracy.

— Walter Cronkite

A lot of people think journalists are criminals, and there are some who haven't helped us. But the media is essential for democratic society.

— Fiona Barton

The job of media is the accountability of government.

— Jeff Zucker

The democratic approach to news is a very valuable thing. We're always going to be dependent on the quality of reporting of mainstream media.

— Kevin Rose

The task of the media in a democracy is not to ease the path of those who govern, but to make life difficult for…

— Jimmy Reid

Vigorous independent and critical media are indispensable in a democracy.

— Geoff Mulgan