“The current generation of politicians expected honest journalists who did not have any hidden agendas and who placed the interest of society first and foremost.”
Joseph Muscat
“Journalists, could only be credible if they were ethical. Ethics implied responsibilities but also gave one rights”
“A serious Whistleblower Act was needed and the dangerous mentality to hunt people who uncovered abuses had to be changed.”
“Journalists expected politicians to be honest partners in their consistent search for the truth. They expected politicians to permit them to take part in the process of building an equal society.”
“It is only fair to state, with regard to modern journalists, that they always apologize to one in private for what they have written against one in public”
Oscar Wilde
“We journalists like to think we are the new crusaders-it's much more gratifying than the image of the journalist pigs evoked by Spitting Image puppets.”
Auberon Waugh
“Labour-leaning journalists suffered in the 1950s and 1960s for upholding the right to freedom of expression during colonial times and the Church's interdiction of Labour supporters.”