Quote of the Day (Joseph Pulitzer, on a ‘Public-Spirited Press’ and Public Virtue)

“Our Republic and its press will rise or fall together. 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. A cynical, mercenary, demagogic press will produce in time a people as base as itself. The power to mould the future of the Republic will be in the hands of the journalists of future generations.”—Hungarian-born American newspaper publisher Joseph Pulitzer (1847-1911), “The College of Journalism,” North American Review, May 1904