Devil Quote by Walter Lippmann Download Open image “There can be no higher law in journalism than to tell the truth and to shame the devil.” — Walter Lippmann ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.7 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Devil Higher Higher law Journalism Law Shame Telling the truth Truth
There can be no higher law in journalism than to tell the truth and to shame the devil - remain detached from the great — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
There is no higher claim to journalistic integrity than going to jail to protect a source. — Thomas Frank Copy Share Image
There's no law preventing a journalist from publishing whatever they want. — Asha Rangappa Copy Share Image
“It is easy for journalism to be morally casual, even as it makes large moral claims for itself. So when journalism is accused by those it serves of privileging sensation before significance, celebrity before achievement, intrusion before purposeful investigation and entertainment before reliability, the charge demands a response. Journalism stands accused of being not so much a public service as… — Ian Hargreaves Copy Share
Withholding information that would get innocent people killed was the right thing to do, not a journalistic sin. — Eason Jordan Copy Share Image
The journalist should be on his guard against publishing what is false in taste or exceptionable in morals. — William C. Bryant Copy Share Image
The First Law of Journalism: to confirm existing prejudice, rather than contradict it. — Alexander Cockburn Copy Share Image
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One of the principles of journalism is you don't lie. You never lie. — Nicholas D. Kristof Copy Share Image
Making the truth public is a form of justice. This is a moral universe and you've got to take account of the fact that… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
“The answer lies in a system of press management combining watertight legal controls with a compelling political ideology that encourages not just obedience, but also active support...The first, which is the older and more common, is made up of various licensing and national security laws. Press laws inherited from the British require all newspapers to be licensed; licenses can be… — Cherian George Copy Share
It's very difficult to measure the impact on policy of any investigative journalism. You hope it matters to let a little more truth loose in the world, but you can't always be sure it does. You do it because there's a story to be told. I can tell you that the job of trying to tell the truth about people… — Bill Moyers Copy Share
The emancipated woman has to fight something worse than the crusted prejudices of her uncles; she has to fight the bewilderment in her own… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
A better distribution of incomes would increase that efficiency by diverting a great fund of wealth from the useless to the useful members of… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
There is but one bond of peace that is both permanent and enriching: The increasing knowledge of the world in which experiment occurs. — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
Where there is no danger of overt action there is rarely any interference with freedom. That is why there has so often been amazing… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and the will to carry on. — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
The simple opposition between the people and big business has disappeared because the people themselves have become so deeply involved in big business. — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
A free press is not a privilege but an organic necessity in a great society. ... A great society is simply a big and… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
“Since position and contact play so big a part in determining what can be seen, heard, read, and experienced, as well as what it… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
An alliance is like a chain. It is not made stronger by adding weak links to it. A great power like the United States… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
The chief element in the art of statesmanship under modern conditions is the ability to elucidate the confused and clamorous interests which converge upon… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
At the core of every moral code there is a picture of human nature, a map of the universe, and a version of history.… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
“The Devil can cite Scripture for his purpose, Sergeant,’ Anthony Payne replied. ‘That is from The Merchant of Venice, but it holds great truth.” — Michael Arnold Copy Share Image
“Beauty is not only a terrible thing, it is also a mysterious thing. There God and the Devil strive for mastery, and the battleground… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
The devil has been defeated, stop trying to defeat him. What we have left is the fight of faith, and it's a good fight! — Chris Oyakhilome Copy Share Image
You gonna take the case?" It's not a case. It's a missing person. Sort of." You're gonna have a devil of a time finding… — Janet Evanovich Copy Share Image
Your head's like mine, like all our heads; big enough to contain every god and devil there ever was. Big enough to hold the… — Grant Morrison Copy Share Image
And so it is, that both the Devil and the angelic Spirit present us with objects of desire to awaken our power of choice. — Rumi Copy Share Image
Remember that Abraham Lincoln was a Whig far longer than he was a Republican. As a whole, the Whigs looked upon banks and corporations… — Allen C. Guelzo Copy Share Image
This is the gift of your species and this is the danger, because you do not choose to control your imaginings. You imagine wonderful… — Michael Crichton Copy Share Image
“The devil?” Jason heaved the tick over his shoulder like a collier with his sack. “Satan. The adversary. The enemy of the plan of… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image