拥有训练有素、是非分明、有勇气为正义献身的智慧的报人的，有能力、公正、具有民众精神的媒体，能够维护那种公众品德，而缺乏它，人民大众的政府既虚伪又令人嘲笑。

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. --Joseph Pulitzer