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W. T. Stead Quotes

1849–1912 England

William Thomas Stead (5 July 1849 – 15 April 1912) was an English newspaper editor who, as a pioneer of investigative journalism, became a controversial figure of the Victorian era.

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The Press is at once the eye and the ear and the tongue of the people. It is the visible speech if not the voice of the democracy. It is the phonograph of the world.

Government by Journalism (1886)

An editor is the uncrowned king of an educated democracy.

Government by Journalism (1886)

The duty of a journalist is the duty of a watchman.

Government by Journalism (1886)

It is the great inspector, with a myriad eyes, who never sleeps, and whose daily reports are submitted, not to a functionary or department, but to the whole people.

Government by Journalism (1886)

What a marvellous opportunity for attacking the devil!

No journalist is omnipotent, and even the most powerful journalist cannot influence those who do not read his paper. But within the range of his circulation — and readers, of course, are much more numerous than subscribers — he may be more potent than any other man. The damnable iteration day after day of earnest conviction wears like the dropping of water upon the stone.

Government by Journalism (1886)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: W. T. Stead (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.