Brooke Baldwin Quotes

I've met many journalists who impress me with their ability to play it straight. I think they're the exception to the rule.

I want the news delivered unbiased. I thought that was the whole point with journalism.

We are not a paid bunch of bullies. Our job is to get the facts.

A journalist covering politics, most of us are aware of the necessity to try to be sure we're unbiased in our reporting. That's one of the fundamentals of good journalism.

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.

A lot of journalism wants to have what they call objectivity without them having a commitment to pursuing the truth, but that doesn't work. Objectivity requires belief in and a commitment toward pursuing the truth - having an object outside of our personal point of view.

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 you're going to be in the business of news and telling people the truth... you've got to be honest. You've got to have the same rules for yourself as you do for everyone else.

When we are reporting the news, we make every effort to report it in as factual way as possible.

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

Not to be weirdly glib, but as a reporter, you should be honest all the time.

The journalistic endeavor - at least theoretically - is grounded in objectivity. The goal is to get you to understand what happened, when and to whom.

The good journalist is never objective. He is always neutral.

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

We all have our likes and our dislikes. But... when we're doing news - when we're doing the front-page news, not the back page, not the op-ed pages, but when we're doing the daily news, covering politics - it is our duty to be sure that we do not permit our prejudices to show. That is simply basic journalism.

As a trial lawyer in front of a jury and an author of true-crime books, credibility has always meant everything to me. My only master and my only mistress are the facts and objectivity. I have no others.

It's my job as a reporter to not be about the business of making friends or enemies but just be in the tireless pursuit of truth.

I tell the truth. That's my training as a reporter.

There has been far too much of journalists deciding they are on the side of something and going out to get the story, instead of truth seeking which is a different thing.

There's no bias when it comes to facts, and there's no bias when it comes to decency.

I had a very strong background in journalism, so it's my instinct to try to be as fair and accurate as possible.

I think journalists have the right to their opinions but I think their opinions should be based on history and what they see, not what they feel, how long they've been waiting or whether it's raining or it's snowing or whatever.

I am bound to tell what I am told, but not in every case to believe it.

We journalists make it a point to know very little about an extremely wide variety of topics; this is how we stay objective.

I don't think there's any reason in journalism not to approach stories we cover with humility, empathy, compassion, and intellectual openness. I mean, I think those are just important human traits. I don't think that precludes scrutiny, negativity, where it's appropriate.