Check Quote by Yair Lapid

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 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

Since an informed citizenry is the basis for a healthy democracy, independent, non-corporate media are more crucial today than ever before

— Dahr Jamail

There are good reasons why everybody should heed politicians' advise not to believe the media. One of the best is that the media report…

— Russell Baker

I myself have felt the wrath of the media, but that's part of what a good democracy is.

— Naftali Bennett

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

Vigorous independent and critical media are indispensable in a democracy.

— Geoff Mulgan

As always, most media aligns with the presumptive winner even though their claimed societal virtue is to investigate those in power.

— Julian Assange

“When the media enjoy such excessive profits from this mass hysteria, what incentive do they have to restrain it?”

— T. Rafael Cimino

Unfortunately, the media, which are not at all reluctant to act in their own self-interest, have succeeded in equating reform in the public mind…

— James L. Buckley

It's much better to talk about the media as a system of propaganda and abuse, of manufactured consent, than it is to claim it's…

— Henry Giroux

The media is supposed to be custodians of the facts and watchdogs of government. They have, for the most part, neglected to be either…

— Janeane Garofalo