Daily Inspiration Quote by Brit Hume

Brit Hume’s line isn’t a blanket condemnation of the press so much as a targeted jab at a familiar newsroom temptation: confusing access with authority, and authority with moral elevation. The sting comes from the phrasing. “Some” is doing tactical work, narrowing the target while still inviting the reader to recognize a type. “Purport” sharpens it further, implying a gap between what journalism claims to do (serve the public) and what it sometimes performs (credentialed distance, insider status, a kind of civic priesthood).

The subtext is about class and culture as much as craft. “Apart from” suggests separation: geographic (coastal media vs. heartland audiences), educational (elite institutions), social (professional-managerial norms). “Above” escalates from distance to hierarchy. That shift matters because it reframes media mistrust not as mere partisan anger but as resentment toward perceived condescension. Hume is diagnosing a tone problem: the whiff of disdain that can creep into coverage choices, story framing, even the default assumption that the public must be instructed rather than listened to.

Contextually, Hume’s career sits inside the long argument over whether mainstream journalism is an umpire or a participant. In an era of collapsing trust, cable-news tribalism, and social media’s constant feedback loop, the quote functions as a warning: when journalists project superiority, they invite audiences to stop treating them as informants and start treating them as adversaries. It’s less about banning expertise than about refusing the posture of moral exemption that makes expertise intolerable.