Campbell Brown Quotes

Journalists who swallow the subject's account whole and publish it are not journalists but publicists.

A journalists's job is not to be balanced. It is to be accurate.

I think the way to be an influential journalist is to be accurate and to be fair and to get things right and to really characterize things in an honest way, versus being really snarky or cheerleading.

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

Journalists hold themselves apart, and above, the common person. They have rules designed to ensure their objectivity and impartiality.

Profiles aren't journalism.

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

The more servile a reporter is toward his sources, the more authoritative he can appear in print.

Certainly in my own body of reporting, I was very acutely aware of the risk of any mischaracterized journalism and the need for anything I put out to be absolutely bulletproof.

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

I believe there are two kinds of journalists. One who sells a story by being creative, and one who sells a story by being sensationalist.

We need ethical journalism. There is also capacity limitations in journalism.

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

Journalists aren't supposed to be cheerleaders.

Well, I don't know about objectivity, but I know for certain that it's always possible for a professional journalist who understands what he or she's up to to be fair, and that's the key word. Fairness to individuals, fairness to ideas, and to issues and whatever - that is critical, and that is also part and parcel of what the job.

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

I went into journalism to do journalism, not advertising.

I am not responsible for all the journalists in the past that have told lies.

Any journalist worth his or her salt wouldn't trust me.

People may expect too much of journalism. Not only do they expect it to be entertaining, they expect it to be true.

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

Documentary film without nuanced journalistic sourcing risks being sensational, tendentious or broad-brushed.

Journalism, as practiced by some, has become something akin to professional wrestling—something to watch rather than believe.

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 don't want to paint everybody with the same broad brush. But I do think that the majority of folks now in the briefing room, that are going into journalism - they're not there for the facts and the pursuit of the truth.