Hamill and Hutchins on Trust and the Free Press
I wanted to throw out two quotations that were running through my mind while listening to the discussions at Bloggercon this weekend. Use them at your leisure.

"The free press is the nexus of a democracy" -- Robert Maynard Hutchins

"Trust is the heart of the matter. Publishers must trust their editors. Editors must trust their reporters. All must trust the intelligence and good sense of their readers. When such overlapping acts of trust and faith are absent or shrugged off, the newspaper usually goes downscale and keeps going all the way to the bottom of the grave. " -- Pete Hamill, in "News is a Verb"

- posted by Amy @ 4/19/2004 09:01:00 AM