Brooke Baldwin Quotes

In journalism it is simpler to sound off than it is to find out. It is more elegant to pontificate than it is to sweat.

Great questions make great reporting.

Whenever you're reporting, there's always something you can't say or write, but the questions, you always want to get as close to that line as possible. You want to ask the tough questions.

I believe there's too little patience and context to many of the investigations I read or see on television.

People who think there is something pedestrian about journalism are just ignorant.

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.

You can’t report on something that you don’t know about.

All successful newspapers are ceaselessly querulous and bellicose. They never defend anyone or anything if they can help it; if the job is forced upon them, they tackle it by denouncing someone or something else..

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

I reject the idea that journalists are messengers of the truth. It’s arrogant. I think journalism is a search for the little relative truths that at best keep us relatively sane.

Journalists like to give themselves credit for being on the hunt for 'the truth.' But if we embrace this undoubtedly noble but somewhat haughty interpretation of a calling, we inevitably become susceptible to slam dunk answers.

I don't think much of the journalism that I see.

Journalism is not writing.

I've been a journalist for too long to stop calling myself a journalist, and also when I'm doing 'Fake or Fortune?' I'm going through a rigorous investigation.

Journalists prize independence - not teamwork.

Scepticism is as important for a good journalist as it is for a good scientist.

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

I'm a journalist and author. I make my living by finding things out and writing about them.

I'm not rational enough to be a good journalist.

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

The dirty little secret of journalism is that it really isn't a profession, it's a craft. All you need is a telephone and a conscience and you're all set.

The most important thing about my profession is finding the truth, finding the reality of these shows.

I went into journalism to do journalism, not advertising.

The curse of a journalist is that he always has more questions than answers.