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At the dawn of his administration, President Obama opined: ‘A democracy requires accountability, and accountability requires transparency.’ Magical rays of white-hot sunlight emanated from his media-manufactured halo. And then bureaucratically engineered darkness settled over the land  (Media And Democracy Quotes) Before Katrina, you didn’t see criticism of the Bush administration in the media. Here they are, stealing elections, enacting illegal wars, huge crimes against humanity and democracy, and you didn’t even see criticism. It wasn’t until Katrina that people started to come down on them  (Media And Democracy Quotes) I used to work for an NGO called Transitions Online, and I was their Director of New Media. I was a very idealistic fellow who thought that he could use blogs, social networks and new media to help promote democracy, human rights and freedom of expression  (Media And Democracy Quotes) Since an informed citizenry is the basis for a healthy democracy, independent, non-corporate media are more crucial today than ever before  (Media And Democracy Quotes) For politicians to be honest, the public needs to allow them to be honest, and the media, which mediates between the politicians and the public, needs to allow those politicians to be honest. If local democracy is to flourish, it is about the active and informed engagement of every citizen.  (Media And Democracy Quotes) There is no more important struggle for American democracy than ensuring a diverse, independent and free media. Free Press is at the heart of that struggle.  (Media And Democracy Quotes) Social media changed Chinese mindset. More and more Chinese intend to embrace freedom of speech and human rights as their birthright, not some imported American privilege. But also, it gave the Chinese a national public sphere for people to, it’s like a training of their citizenship, preparing for future democracy.  (Media And Democracy Quotes) I think we need more young people; we need to elect young people to government. We need to give them a chance, in the media, in politics, in democracy.  (Media And Democracy Quotes) I think it is absolutely essential in a democracy to have competition in the media, a lot of competition, and we seem to be moving away from that  (Media And Democracy Quotes) Now that our media companies and it appears are policies are traded for cash, what is there to check the continuing consolidation of power and diminishing of democracy?  (Media And Democracy Quotes)