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Campaigns, Investigations, and Bribes
Crusading journalism
It is a newspaper's duty to print the news and raise hell.
William Storey
Statement of the aims of the 'Chicago Times'
1861
A newspaper can send more souls to heaven , and save more from
Hell, than all the churches or chapels in New York.
James Gordon Bennett
Hot lead can be almost as effective coming from a linotype
as from a
firearm.
John O'Hara
If newspapers are useful in overthrowing tyrants, it is only
to establish a tyranny of their own.
James Fenimore Cooper
Investigative journalism
An investigative journalist is one who can think up plausible
scandals.
Lambert Jeffries
The image of the reporter as a nicotine-stained Quixote, slugging
back Scotch while skewering City Hall with an exposé ripped
out of the typewriter on the crack of deadline persists despite
munificent evidence to the contrary.
Paul Grey
A cantankerous press, an obstinate press, a ubiquitous press,
must be suffered by those in authority in order to preserve the
right of the people to know.
Murray I Gurfein
US Appeal Court judge, affirming the right
of the 'New York Times' to publish
the Pentagon Papers
1971
Bribery and corruption
A gifted man who isn't interested in money is very hard to
tame.
Alistair Cooke
of the BBC
The only newspapers that can be bought are the ones not worth
buying.
Lord Liverpool
(1770-1828)
British Prime Minister
I receive, once every two months, blatant proposals to write
reviews for new films or articles about computer companies or
about politicians for considerable money. In 1993, when Moscow
News was paying about 2,000 rubles [about $6] per typed page,
I was offered as much as $100 to write a positive review of a
new firm for that paper.
Oleg Pschenichny
Moscow journalist
1995
Never accept a free ticket from a theatre manager, a free ride
from the chamber of commerce, or a favour from a politician.
H.L. Menken