Brown: “Maybe I Am The Tortoise”

Aaron Brown “is now the elder statesman among anchors,” Gail Shister notes.
“Maybe I am the tortoise in this business,” he says. “I move pretty slowly sometimes. I want to see each chapter unfold. I don’t let anyone — anchor, viewer, correspondent — get ahead of the material.”

That’s what makes Brown stand out on TV, because “there’s always pressure in television to make everything a sprint.” But the Katrina story is a marathon, he adds. More…