Aaron Sorkin Quotes

I still love following and thinking about politics. I enjoy recommending important journalism I read or see from other sources.

I'd always been a news junkie, always read lots of newspapers and watched the Sunday morning news shows on TV and felt strongly about issues of power, control, sexuality and race.

I think people should be consumers of journalism.

I want to educate people and deliver news that isn't just surrounded by Charlie Sheen. I'd like to be able to do the serious stuff in conjunction with the comedy.

Journalism is in fact history on the run.

I don't follow politics much.

I don't think the intelligence reports are all that hot. Some days I get more out of New York Times.

We try and slow down the news.

Part of my job is to read the paper, watch C-Span and show things that haven't been shown or were buried.

In most daily journalism, you only fact-check something if it seems a little fishy.

Journalism is a Darwinian process.

My parents were really political. The news was very important in our home. We basically had dinner every night while watching the news, and then we'd discuss it with our parents.

People crave trustworthy information about the world we live in. Some people want it because it is essential to the way they make a living. Some want it because they regard being well-informed as a condition of good citizenship. Some want it because they want something to exchange over dinner tables and water coolers.

Newspapers are tutors as well as informers.

It's all storytelling, you know. That's what journalism is all about.

I think I'm pretty politically informed, and I find myself watching Senate hearings on C-SPAN.

One of the most important disciplines in journalism is to challenge your working premises.

The most important service rendered by the press and the magazines is that of educating people to approach printed matter with distrust.

One thing that happens on the 'Newsroom' is that every time a real story does get incorporated into the show, there's always an angle that's provided that hasn't really been dealt with yet.

Be able to notice all the confusion between fact and opinion that appears in the news.

I am grateful to journalism for waking me up to the realities of the world.

Definitely read a quality daily paper regularly, and use the Internet to check out the press around the world as often as you can.

Journalism keeps you planted in the earth.

The central dilemma in journalism is that you don't know what you don't know.

I think people are smart enough to sort it out. They know when they're watching one of these food fight shows where journalists sit around and yell and scream at each other, versus serious issue reporting.