Journalism has been a much talked about, often controversial, topic of the modern world. The number of quotes relating to journalism just reflects an attempt to put into words and proper perspective the giant of modern social and political intercourse that is media practice.
For US Justice, Potter Stewart, the independence of the media remains non-negotiable. "Newspapers, television networks, and magazines have sometimes been outrageously abusive, untruthful, arrogant, and hypocritical. But it hardly follows that elimination of a strong and independent press is the way to eliminate abusiveness . . ." Others have a much more idealist view of the media: "Journalism can never be silent. That is its greatest virtue and its greatest fault. It must speak, and speak immediately, while the echoes of wonder, the claims of triumph and the signs of horror are still in the air," says Henry Anatole Grunwald. And others find in the love-hate relationship between politician and journalist a certain inevitability.
