Quotes by Brit Hume

About Brit Hume:

Alexander Britton "Brit" Hume is a political commentator and television journalist.
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Fairness is not an attitude. It's a professional skill that must be developed and exercised.

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There's a certain elitism that has crept into the attitudes of some in journalism, and it played out perfectly over the issue of these little American flag lapel pins.

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It's a battle to be seen in the world of advertisers and in the world of business as a serious force.

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When you're five years old, and you're running a business that people did not think there was room for, getting attention is not a bad thing. Letting it be known by whatever colorful language is necessary is not a bad thing.

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We've had a chance to be seen by viewers who had never seen us before, and we've kept a lot of them.

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My sense about Greta is that people ought to wait and see and see if she doesn't indeed turn out to be as balanced as we hope and expect she will. But there you are.

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MSNBC got some very good people. They've got a good-looking set. All They're first-class. Somewhere along the way, they kind of lost their identity as a news channel, and they started doing a lot of other sort of magazine-type programming.

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The president's poking fun at himself over what goes down. I thought it was a good-natured performance. It made him look good. But he certainly doesn't disguise the record on weapons of mass destruction. And you feel like saying to people, Just get o...

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If the markets had behaved badly, that would obviously add to people's sense of alarm... but there has been a lot of reassurance coming, particularly in the way the Brits handled all this. There seems to be no great fear that something like that is g...

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CNN is a more diverse brand. It's spread out over more products over there.

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Geraldo has been in Lebanon. He has done some excellent reporting out of there, and of course, we now know by virtue of the president's speech on Tuesday night that the terrorist organizations that operate in that area are now on the list.

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I don't think very many people would accuse Paula Zahn of being a conservative.

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I think that what people want from cable news channels is the sense that if there's hard news, it's going to come up immediately.

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I think we're giving people something new that people didn't know was out there before.

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In America today, if your sensibilities are offended by something that has happened, you get an enormous amount of credibility and are taken very seriously.

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Nobody's profitable at this moment, because recession is on; advertising dollars are down, and expenses are way up. So that kind of belies the situation that you would expect, because the ratings are way up everywhere.

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Our emphasis on political coverage from the day we were born here was well-founded, and we believe there were opportunities there that we could do it in a more interesting, appealing and balanced way.

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People realized that they could come on Fox News Sunday, and they would be well and fairly treated.

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Some in journalism consider themselves apart from and to some extent above the people they purport to serve.

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Surveys have shown going back as far as you and I can remember that people have perceived a leftward tilt in the basic coverage that they get on TV news.

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Author Bio

  • NameBrit Hume
  • DescriptionJournalist
  • BornJune 22, 1943
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionJournalist
  • AwardsEmmy Award