Aaron Brown Quotes

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

I'm not an advocacy journalist - that's not what I do. My role in journalism is to be able to engage the most interesting people with the best ideas.

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

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

The thing that bothers me about journalism is the false equivalency we sometimes place on certain issues.

I would love for us to get back to a place in this country where we have real journalists, where we have real news reporting.

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

There's an old saw about journalism that the more you know about a subject, the less sense reporting about it makes.

It's all storytelling, you know. That's what journalism is all about.

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.

As journalists, we cannot swallow the official line without question. We should challenge almost everything that dictators, presidents and officials say.

One of the most important disciplines in journalism is to challenge your working premises.

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.

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.

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

Once we thought, journalists and readers alike, that if we put together enough 'facts' and gave them a fast stir, we would come up with something that, at least by the standards of short-order cooks, could be called the truth.

Journalists are supposed to be skeptical, that's what keeps them digging rather than simply accepting the official line, whether it comes from government or corporate bureaucrats.

The quality of life in America is dependent on the quality of the journalism. Most people don't realize that, but if you think about it, journalism is one of the pillars on which our society is perched.

I'm supremely uninterested as to what is written in many of the newspapers.

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.

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.

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

Journalism is a giant catapult set in motion by pygmy hatreds.