Brooke Baldwin Quotes

If journalism is good, it is controversial, by its nature.

I want to be a journalist; I want to ask tough questions.

I just don't understand why people decide to be journalists if they're not willing to investigate hard-hitting news stories.

There's no question that sources sometimes have interests aside from the truth when they talk to reporters. That's why reporters have to very aggressively report against their own theses and against their initial information.

Journalism seems to have recovered its reason for being.

I believe the Times is a great newspaper, but a profoundly fallible one.

I went into journalism to do journalism, not advertising.

Scepticism is a necessary and vital part of the journalist's toolkit. But when scepticism becomes cynicism it can close off thought and block the search for truth.

Whenever you're reporting, there's always something you can't say or write, but the questions, you always want to get as close to that line as possible. You want to ask the tough questions.

I'm in the business, as a journalist, of asking tough questions.

Journalists are supposed to be skeptical, that's what keeps them digging rather than simply accepting the official line, whether it comes from government or corporate bureaucrats.

Journalism is a flawed profession, but it has a self-correcting mechanism. The rule of journalism is: talk to everybody.

Journalism is a giant catapult set in motion by pygmy hatreds.

I always like to have a buffer between me and journalism in general. Not just a reporter, but journalism.

The function of journalism is, primarily, to uncover vital new information in the public interest and to put that information in a context so that we can use it to improve the human condition.

Journalism is not writing.

As reporters, we not only deliver the news of the day. We must also defend the truth. And just because we are pro-truth doesn't mean we are anti-Trump.

I got in journalism for any number of reasons, not least because it's so much fun. Journalism should be in the business of putting pressure on power, finding out the truth, of shining a light on injustice, of, when appropriate, being amusing and entertaining - it's a complicated and varied beast, journalism.

It's been said that no man is a hero to a newspaperman, and I spent too many years as an ink-stained wretch.

Journalists prize independence - not teamwork.

To newspapers and publishing houses I urge the use of fact over fiction, freedom of the press, and responsibility at all times.

A good journalist is modest; his only job is simple: to decide what counts as news.

Journalists aren't supposed to be cheerleaders.

Journalism: A profession whose business is to explain to others what it personally does not understand.

When I was in journalism school, you were taught to be completely objective. But we don't see that anymore.