Brit Hume Quotes

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.

Look, everybody in journalism has a reputation of sorts.

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

They take journalism really seriously because they know the force that it is and can be.

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.

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

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

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.

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

A journalist enjoys a privileged position. In exchange for not being able to participate in the rough-and-tumble issues of a community, we are given license to observe it all, based on the understanding that we'll tell everyone what happens fairly and squarely. That's harder than it sounds.

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

We don't go into journalism to be popular. It is our job to seek the truth and put constant pressure on our leaders until we get answers.

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

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.

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.

In any event, the proper question isn't what a journalist thinks is relevant but what his or her audience thinks is relevant. Denying people information they would find useful because you think they shouldn't find it useful is censorship, not journalism.

I absolutely reject that idea that the press is liberal and what it does is liberal. In my view, it's like accusing a doctor of malpractice or a lawyer of malfeasance.

Journalism was looked upon as a more noble thing than it is now. I don't know if it carries the same cachet that it did then.

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

We journalists are never so idiotic as when we analyze things that we shouldn't be analyzing.

You know, I was at CBS News for 28 years. I may have run an unidentified source. Frankly, I don't remember.

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

I don't believe that there's such a thing as objectivity in much of journalism, but I think there is a serious effort to and a regard for facts and into taking that stuff seriously is very important to the public discourse and it's very important to democracy.

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