Heather Brooke Quotes & Sayings (Page 5)

“There's a temptation not to vote at all as a protest, but it's definitely not a protest. In fact, all it does is keep the people in power in power, and I don't think they should be.”

“When journalism is treated as just another widget in a commercial enterprise, the focus isn't on truth, verification or public good, but productivity and output.”

“Whether I'll get the chance to write fiction, I don't know. I could do political conspiracy thrillers, couldn't I? With an investigative journalist as the heroine.”

“Secrecy can be sexy. It's essential to any good mystery novel.”

“It is scrutiny by the general public that keeps the powerful honest.”

“I've always worked on the fringe of the British press establishment, carving out this niche for myself.”

“You don't make a system more effective by increasing the number of regulators.”

“I'm a freedom of information campaigner, so obviously I support the cause of Wikileaks.”

“The movement towards radical transparency and accountability has been gaining steam for several decades.”

“A generation of people are being radicalised by the criminalisation of information sharing.”