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The press is the hired agent of a monied system, and set up for no other purpose than to tell lies where their interests are involved. One can trust nobody and nothing.

What manner of thing this 'public opinion' is, should be best known to those who have its name forever in their mouths and erect the regard for it into a positive article of religion. Its self-styled organ in our times is the 'Press.'

Journalists are supposed to be skeptical, that's what keeps them digging rather than simply accepting the official line, whether it comes from government or corporate bureaucrats.

An able, disinterested, public-spirited press, with trained intelligence to know the right and courage to do it, can preserve that public virtue without which popular government is a sham and a mockery.

I absolutely reject that idea that the press is liberal and what it does is liberal. In my view, it's like accusing a doctor of malpractice or a lawyer of malfeasance.

It is scrutiny by the general public that keeps the powerful honest.

Journalists, who are skeptical to begin with, simply do not like to be lied to or made fools of.

I take a grave view of the press. It is the weak slat under the bed of democracy.

I have never quite grasped the worry about the power of the press. After all, it speaks with a thousand voices, in constant dissonance.

We don't go into journalism to be popular. It is our job to seek the truth and put constant pressure on our leaders until we get answers.