Brit Hume Quotes

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

Presidential coverage used to be a very serious endeavor.

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

Larry King and his producers ought to go back to school and learn what 'fair and balanced' really means.

So often on CNN, there's a world-class journalist interviewing campaign rejects and ideologues and silly, craven people who do not care about informing people, that aren't there to help people understand what's going on in the news.

The job of the press is to encourage debate, not to supply the public with information.

The news used to be to report facts and allow you to make the decision.

The mainstream press and television do a very soft job of covering the press, either as corporate entities or as news organizations.

Its attitude, which it has preached and practiced, is skepticism. Now, it finds, the public is applying that skepticism to the press.

Journalism seems to have recovered its reason for being.

The democratic approach to news is a very valuable thing. We're always going to be dependent on the quality of reporting of mainstream media.

My own view, there is a need for and a demonstrated need for more journalism now than there ever has been.

A lot of people take shots at news channels.

The media does play a vital role in our democracy, and if we cannot depend on journalistic ethics, the nation's in trouble.

In this day and age, much of journalism is about right or left, conservative or liberal, and 'The Observer' is just that: an observer. It is about truth.

I cover media people the way they cover politicians.

And I've been incredibly lucky to have a long career in journalism that has given me a front-row seat to some of the most important moments in modern American political life.

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

I accept the media for what they are. Most of them are really good people. Some of them are scumbags.

All in all, I just don't trust journalists - and I don't think it's a good practice for me to trust journalists.

I was increasingly disappointed how people in the media do their job or, rather, don't do their job. They are not there for the facts or pursuit of the truth; they are there to see, 'How do I get on TV or become a YouTube star.'

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

The papers feed the public interest but then the public interest demands more in the press and speculation can look like fact.

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.

Two opposite and instructive figures in U.S. journalism during the Trump years are Gerard Baker, editor of the Wall Street Journal, and Martin Baron, editor of the Washington Post.