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“Journalism is printing what someone else does not want printed; everything else is public relations.” – George Orwell
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“A free press can be good or bad, but, most certainly, without freedom, the press will never be anything but bad.” – Albert Camus
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“Journalism is the first rough draft of history.” – Philip Graham
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“Journalism is the literature of democracy.” – Thomas Jefferson
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“Only a free and unrestrained press can effectively expose deception in government.” – Hugo Black
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“News is what someone wants to suppress. Everything else is advertising.” – Lord Northcliffe
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“People everywhere confuse what they read in newspapers with news.” – A. J. Liebling
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“Journalism is about results. It’s about affecting your community or your society in the most progressive way.” – Anas Aremeyaw Anas
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“The role of a journalist is to report the news, not become the news.” – Jonathan Dimbleby
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“Journalists are the eyes and ears of society.” – Friedrich Rückert
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“A true journalist is a truth-teller and an advocate for the people.” – Zainab Salbi
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“Journalists are watchdogs, not lapdogs.” – Newton N. Minow
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“The truth may be stretched thin, but it never breaks, and it always surfaces above lies, as oil floats on water.” – Miguel de Cervantes SISTER BORN FROM ANOTHER MOTHER QUOTES
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“Journalism can never be silent: that is its greatest virtue and its greatest fault.” – Henry Anatole Grunwald
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“The duty of a journalist is to be afraid of nothing.” – Karl Marx
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“A journalist’s job is not to be popular; it is to seek the truth and present it to the public, regardless of the consequences.” – Linda Ellerbee
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“In journalism, there has always been a tension between getting it first and getting it right.” – Ellen Goodman
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“Journalism is printing what someone else does not want printed; everything else is public relations.” – Sir William Oslern
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“Journalism without a moral position is impossible. Every journalist is a moralist, it’s absolutely unavoidable.” – Marguerite Duras
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“The ethics of journalism never change. It’s to tell the story straight and true and serve the reader, listener, or viewer. We should never fail that obligation.” – Mike Royko
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“Good journalism is about consistently and persistently asking the tough questions and holding those in power accountable.” – Christiane Amanpour
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“Journalism is the art of explaining clearly what you don’t know.” – G. K. Chesterton
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“The highest function of journalism is to provide a platform for the engagement of different, sometimes opposing, perspectives and ideas.” – John Hockenberry
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“Journalists are the lifeblood of a democracy, and the first casualty in an autocracy.” – Gwen Ifill
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“Journalism is not a crime, but without journalists, many crimes go unnoticed.” – Ahmed Zaidan