Daily Inspiration Quote by Brit Hume

“Surveys have shown” is doing the heavy lifting here, and Brit Hume knows it. He’s not citing a particular poll; he’s invoking the vibe of data to launder a contested claim into something that sounds settled. The second trick is temporal: “going back as far as you and I can remember” wraps the argument in shared memory, a cozy appeal to generational common sense. If you and the audience are old enough to remember Cronkite, you’re invited to treat suspicion of “liberal media” as an enduring, almost natural fact.

Hume’s diction is careful. He doesn’t say TV news is left-tilted; he says people have “perceived” a leftward tilt in the “basic coverage that they get.” That phrasing shifts the debate from accuracy to sentiment and from institutions to consumers. It’s a rhetorical sidestep that protects the speaker: if challenged, he can retreat to public opinion. Yet the subtext is clear: if the public perceives bias for decades, the bias must be real - or at least politically actionable.

Context matters: by the time Hume became a defining voice on Fox, “media bias” had evolved into a durable identity marker on the right, a way to pre-emptively discredit unfavorable facts. The line functions less as diagnosis than as permission structure: it tells viewers their distrust isn’t paranoia, it’s history. And once distrust is framed as rational, the alternative ecosystem - partisan commentary packaged as correction - becomes not a choice but a civic necessity.