The Role of the Media

An institution should always fight for progress and reform, never tolerate injustice or corruption, always fight demagogues of all parties, never belong to any party, always oppose privileged classes and public plunders, never lack sympathy with the poor, always remain devoted to the public welfare, never be satisfied with merely printing news, always be drastically independent, never be afraid to attack wrong, whether by predatory plutocracy or predatory poverty.

－Joseph Pulitzer


傳媒的角色

一個（新聞）機構應永遠為進步和改革而戰，永不容忍不攻和腐敗現象；應永遠向各政黨的煽動行為宣戰，永不從屬於任何政黨；應永遠反對特權階級和魚肉百姓的人，永不對貧窮的人漠然不顧；應永遠對社會福利事業忠誠不渝，永不滿足於只顧刊登新聞，應永遠竭力維護獨立自主，永不懼怕打擊錯誤行為，不管它是來自掠奪成性的富豪統治集團還是來自淪於劫掠的貧困人們。

－約瑟夫 普立茲