Campbell Brown Quotes

I record the following shows on a daily basis and watch them when I have the time/inclination: 'The Daily Show,' Rachel Maddow, 'Hardball,' 'The Colbert Report,' 'The O'Reilly Factor,' David Letterman.

I watch Rachel Maddow, Keith Olbermann, and Chris Matthews. That's what I watch every night. By the time I've watched them, I don't have time to watch reality TV shows.

I only watch MSNBC for the news.

There has to be news at a place called Fox News.

In journalism the gold standard has become punditry rather than reporting.

What MSNBC is, what cable news prime time has become in the shows that get the ratings, is the oped page of the newspaper.

I do watch a lot of Fox News. I like Charles Krauthammer and Bill O'Reilly.

Anderson Cooper is fine. He is a smart, conscientious guy, and he seems to want his show to produce and highlight good journalism. But he also seems to want to replace Regis, or maybe even Oprah.

The one function that TV news performs very well is that when there is no news we give it to you with the same emphasis as if it were.

I think that Peter Jennings is the only decent one of the big three.

I do a lot of reading of news so I can be smarter, and I do a lot of watching TV news so I can know why Americans aren't very smart. Then I can point out the hypocrisy of politicians or the media.

I am proud of the Fox News Channel.

I think the commentarian has taken over, so now what you get is a lot less reporting and more opinion.

The difference between Koppell and Olberman types is that one gives editorializing in all its editorial frankness so there are no mistakes as to bias, and the other passes off a subtler bias as objectivity.

My journalistic heroes are Peter Jennings and Ted Koppel and Tim Russert and Edward R. Murrow, among others, because they were tough.

I'm a news junkie. Anderson Cooper, I watch him every night. I watch Piers Morgan a lot as well.

If there is one way that I would sum up what the 2016 election was on cable news, it was world-class journalists interviewing morons.

Sometimes I look around cable news and it's like you wonder whether you're looking at anchors or authors.

I have no interest in interfering or involving myself in journalistic integrity or process.

Cable news, by its very nature, by its formula, is very guest-heavy.

Now, you watch cable news, and you know what everybody's going to say before they open their mouth.

So often on CNN, there's a world-class journalist interviewing campaign rejects and ideologues and silly, craven people who do not care about informing people, that aren't there to help people understand what's going on in the news.

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.

Media doesn't like when other media gets their credentials pulled - that's not OK.

Speaking of honesty, if you're like me you turn on the news to get information - a set of facts. If you want opinion, you come to shows like mine, where our prejudices and biases and opinions are made known; there's no false pretenses that you're getting pure objectivity.