The media doesn't need a conscience; people need consciences.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Individual consciences are fine but individual consciences have to be made manifest.
Conscience is our unerring judge until we finally stifle it.
Citizens with a conscience are not going to ignore wrong-doing simply because they'll be destroyed for it: the conscience forbids it.
If anyone has a conscience it's generally a guilty one.
The media does play a vital role in our democracy, and if we cannot depend on journalistic ethics, the nation's in trouble.
The conscience can be a strong guide in life if we allow it.
Public opinion is a second conscience.
Conscience allows us to do two things: Pass judgment on ourselves; approve or condemn our own conduct.
There is such a thing as a national conscience, and it can be touched.
Conscience is a coward, and those faults it has not strength enough to prevent it seldom has justice enough to accuse.