Argument Quote by David Puttnam

We have got to make sure there is proper independent scrutiny and accountability for people in the press, just as there should be in…

— Nick Clegg

All successful newspapers are ceaselessly querulous and bellicose. They never defend anyone or anything if they can help it; if the job is forced…

— H. L. Mencken

Along with responsible newspapers we must have responsible readers.

— Arthur Hays Sulzberger

You have to create public activist pressure on papers like the 'New York Times' to keep them accountable.

— David Brock

We have, without any fanfare or much conversation, moved into a era in which news organizations are expected to explain themselves. Twenty years ago,…

— Alex Jones

There isn't as much passion and outrage in today's newspapers. That may be because of a corporate decision, but they've lost their personality.

— Michael Gartner

The point of journalism is to hold people in positions of power accountable.

— Ana Kasparian

I do think the biggest problem newspapers have is loss of trust, and I feel that's a result of failure to speak truth to…

— Craig Newmark

The editor of a newspaper cannot be independent, but must work with one hand tied behind him by party and patrons, and be content…

— Mark Twain

I think that if there are problems in journalism they're created by journalists... the trivialisation of the news and the sort of snyed, cynical…

— Russell Crowe

Journalism is the only profession explicitly protected by the U.S. Constitution, because journalists are supposed to be the check and balance on government. We're…

— Amy Goodman

The newspaper journalists like to believe the worst; they can sell more papers that way, as one of them told me himself; for even…

— Margaret Atwood