The media is absolutely essential to the functioning of a democracy. It's not our job to cozy up to power. We're supposed to be the check and balance on government.

Going to where the silence is. That is the responsibility of a journalist: giving a voice to those who have been forgotten, forsaken, and beaten down by the powerful.

A typical Ponzi scheme involves taking money from investors, then paying them off with money taken from new investors, rather than paying them from actual earnings.

[The media can be] the greatest force for peace on the earth [for] it is how we come to understand each other.

I've learned in my years as a journalist that when a politician says 'That's ridiculous' you're probably on the right track

Independent media can go to where the silence is and break the sound barrier, doing what the corporate networks refuse to do.

The media—stenographers to power.