Brooke Baldwin Quotes

As far as the media is concerned, I wouldn't shoot anything down.

I happen to believe that any legitimate news organization in the world would do that interview. And if the United States is going to be a proponent of a free press, it has to walk the walk.

The level of journalism in this country is just so pathetically poor, and I've, in a sense, gone over the top of them, which they don't like.

When I was at MSNBC, I had issues with the Obama administration. I got told by the person who runs MSNBC... that Washington was not happy with my tone.

If there's one thing that everyone can agree on, it's that, right or wrong, they hate the press.

I think the future of journalism is going to be a battle between caution and recklessness. And I think a little bit of recklessness is a good thing, as some of the WikiLeaks cables proved.

In the U.K., journalists are a little bit more ruthless than in Denmark. I have a feeling the tabloid press in the U.K. is pretty harsh.

The truth is, I don't have any problem with journalists - I count some of them as friends - also some of my heroes are journalists, I'm a big fan of Robert Fisk - great people or crazy people who are prepared to stand up for what's right.

If I had my choice I would kill every reporter in the world, but I am sure we would be getting reports from Hell before breakfast.

It is the role of good journalism to take on powerful abusers, and when powerful abusers are taken on, there's always a bad reaction. So we see that controversy, and we believe that is a good thing to engage in.

I read the papers like everybody else, so I don't complain about what they print.

American newspapers are so filthy and bestial that no honest man would admit one into his house for a water-closet doormat.

I am one of the few men in public life who doesn't complain much about his treatment as the hands of the press. The press takes me to task every once in a while, but they have always been very kind, not attributing my hypocrisy to bad motives. They have always attributed it to a lack of mental capacity.

The chief danger which threatens the influence and honor of the press is the tendency of its liberty to degenerate into license.

The media are the opposition party.

Whoever said I hated the media?

CNN is an American symbol of independent journalism and First Amendment free speech. My board and I are clear: CNN will remain completely independent from an editorial perspective.

When Trump attacks the news media, he's kicking a wounded animal.

I didn't say a bad thing about 'Politico' in my book.

We need journalists to be fearless and hold power to account.

Now everybody is questioning everything, so it's up to journalists who really care about the truth to fight for their corner of the truth and journalistic freedom.

Journalists play God when they decide for their readers when to hide information from them. Frequently, those choices are unavoidable.

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

Journalism is the protection between people and any sort of totalitarian rule. That's why my hero, admittedly a flawed one, is a journalist.

I think there are a lot of reasons to be critical of the media in America.