Judith Miller Trusted Quotations

If a journalist cannot be trusted to guarantee confidentiality, the journalist cannot function and there cannot be a free press. The freest and fairest societies are not only those with independent judiciaries, but those with an independent press that works every day to keep government accountable by publishing what the government might not want the public to know.

If journalists cannot be trusted to guarantee confidentiality, then journalists cannot function and there cannot be a free press.