“We are a democracy and there is only one way to get
a democracy on its feet in the matter of its individual, its social, its
municipal, its state, its national conduct and that is by keeping the public
informed about what is going on. There is not a crime, there is not a dodge,
there is not a trick, there is not a swindle, there is not a vice, which does
not live in secrecy. Get these things out in the open, describe them, attack
them, ridicule them in the press, and sooner or later public opinion will sweep
them away."—New York World
editor Joseph Pulitzer (1847-1911) quoted in Alleyne Ireland, Joseph Pulitzer: Reminiscences of a Secretary (1920)
Let's see the press do its job this year.
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