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Burke said there were three estates in parliament; but, in the reporter's gallery yonder, there sat a fourth estate more important far than they all.

Thomas Carlyle

On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic

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Carlyle, Thomas. "The Hero as Man of Letters." 19 May 1840, London, England, UK. Lecture.

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There can be no higher law in journalism than to tell the truth and shame the devil.

Walter Lippmann

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Lippmann, Walter. "Journalism and the Higher Law." Liberty and the News. Harcourt, Brace and Howe, 1920.

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We are the tools are vassals of rich men behind the scenes. We are the jumping jacks, they pull the strings and we dance. Our talents, our possibilities, and our lives are all the property of other men. We are intellectual prostitutes.

John Swinton

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Quoted in Chicago Labor Enquirer

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Swinton, John. Quoted in Chicago Labor Enquirer. 12 May 1888.

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The gallery in which the reporters sit has become a fourth estate of the realm.

Thomas Babington Macaulay

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Macaulay, Thomas Babington. "Hallam." Edinburgh Review, Sept. 1828.

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This is the West, sir. When the legend becomes fact, print the legend.

The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance

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The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance. Directed by John Ford, John Ford Productions, 1962.

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The men with the muckrakes are often indispensable to the well-being of society, but only if they know when to stop raking the muck, and to look upward to the celestial crown above them...if they gradually grow to feel that the whole world is nothing but muck their power of usefulness is gone.

Theodore Roosevelt

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Roosevelt, Theodore, Jr. "The Man with the Muckrake." Laying of the cornerstone of the House Office Building. 14 Apr. 1906, House Office Building, Washington, DC, USA.

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Roosevelt, Theodore, Jr. "The Man with the Muckrake." The Muckrakers, edited by Arthur Weinberg and Lila Weinberg. University of Illinois Press, 2001.

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Every journalist who is not too stupid or too full of himself to notice what is going on knows that what he does is morally indefensible. He is a kind of confidence man, preying on the people's vanity, ignorance, or loneliness, gaining their trust and betraying them without remorse.

Janet Malcolm

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Malcolm, Janet. "The Journalist and the Murderer." The New Yorker, 13 Mar. 1989 - 20 Mar. 1989.

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Journalists belong in the gutter because that is where the ruling classes throw their guilty secrets.

Gerald Priestland

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Priestland, Gerald. Radio broadcast in London. 19 May 1988, London, England, UK.

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