Shannon Bream Quotes

Fox is fair and balanced.

We in the media should be breaking the news and not making the news.

It's CNN's bigger problem that CNN wants to deny reality. I, too, used to drink the Kool-Aid that it was a top journalism operation that reports without bias. Now that I'm outside the walls of traditional media, I know there is no such thing.

More and more, journalism seems to have hopped out of Truth's pocket and crept into another.

It's the broadcaster's dilemma. Are we true journalists? I don't know if I am or not.

If you are a journalist, check and double-check your sources. Don't just swallow what politicians tell you.

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

There aren't enough good journalists. There are too many who really weren't groomed to be reporters and, as a result, some of the reporting is shallow.

If establishment journalists were to replicate actual stenography, it would be an improvement on most of the work they produce.

There is a long-standing tradition in the mainstream press of middle-of-the-road journalism that is objective and fair. I would hate to see that fall victim to a panic about the Fox effect.

The first duty of a newspaper is to be accurate. If it be accurate, it follows that it is fair.

You can criticize any news staff in some ways, but the one thing that you couldn't call the Village Voice staff was a staff of stenographers, taking notes from public figures and just passing them on.

Over and over again-in the movie, I have nine different people who have worked for Fox News network who have come forward and talked on camera, three of them anonymously, by the way.

Some in journalism consider themselves apart from and to some extent above the people they purport to serve.

Media is just a word that has come to mean bad journalism.

I think journalism gets measured by the quality of information it presents, not the drama or the pyrotechnics associated with us.

God, newspapers have been making up stories forever. This kind of trifling and fooling around is not a function of the New Journalism.

The essence of American journalism is vulgarity divested of truth.

From forty years' experience of the wretched guess-work of the newspapers of what is not done in the open daylight, and of their falsehood even as to that, I rarely think them worth reading, and almost never worth notice.

A news-writer is a man without virtue who lies at home for his own profit.

Journalists always explain that people are mad at them because they tell the truth, which is often unpleasant or uncomfortable to hear. However, they fail in situations where there is more than one truth.

I think that 'Fox News' is fair and balanced.

Clearly, you can't believe everything you read in the press.

Any of us who've been newspapermen for a long time hate generalizations.

As anchorman of the CBS Evening News, I signed off my nightly broadcasts for nearly two decades with a simple statement: 'And that's the way it is.' To me, that encapsulates the newsman's highest ideal: to report the facts as he sees them, without regard for the consequences or controversy that may ensue.