The most important responsibility we have as journalists is to question those who are in power. I honestly believe that.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I think as journalists, we have to keep our distance from power.
We have rights in America. In tandem with those rights, we have responsibility. Whatever type of journalist we are, whether it be in the entertainment business, or as professional journalists, we always have the consequences of the way we present fact and information.
Americans deserve journalists who provide responsible, objective reporting.
The duty of the media is to observe truth and social responsibility.
U.S. journalists I don't think are very courageous. They tend to go along with the government's policy domestically and internationally. To question is seen as being unpatriotic, or potentially subversive.
The things journalists should pay attention to are the issues the political leadership agrees on, rather than to their supposed antagonisms.
The media does play a vital role in our democracy, and if we cannot depend on journalistic ethics, the nation's in trouble.
When journalists forget that our job is to question and annoy those in power, there can be huge consequences.
Some of our best journalists take themselves even more seriously than the politicians they write about.
The responsibility that I feel is to do as good a job as a journalist as I can possibly do.