Because I have success, it doesn't mean I'm part of the mainstream. I'm still an outsider. |
I've written thousands of stories, started hundreds of news cycles. |
I want one place I can go that is not going to be lewd, and I'm not sure there is anything left. |
I'm not mean. Topics: Short |
It seems to me we are losing our way in an effort to get the ratings. |
A lot of the stories are internal. They leak it to me wanting to get attention, wanting to get that headline. More times than not, I will not give it to them. |
There's nothing more exciting than to watch a story break and grow, and to be the first one to present it to the world. |
Some of the best news stories start in gossip. Monica Lewinsky certainly was gossip in the beginning. I had heard it months before I printed it. |
Not everything I do is gossip or bedroom. To the contrary, I think that's just an easy label to dismiss me and to dismiss the new medium. |
We have entered an era vibrating with the din of small voices. Every citizen can be a reporter, can take on the powers that be. |
I don't necessarily think anything on a Web site can have a result. |
The Internet feeds off the main press, and the main press feeds off the Internet. They're working in tandem. |
If the first lady is concerned about this Internet cycle, what would she have done during the heyday when there was 12, 13 editions of a paper in one day? What would she have done with that news cycle? |
I cover media people the way they cover politicians. |
Television saved the movies. The Internet is going to save the news business. |
I follow my conscience - and this is upsetting to some people, but I maintain the conscience is going to be the only thing between us and communication in the future. |
All truths begin as hearsay, as far as I'm concerned. |
The media is comparable to government-probably passes government in raw power. |
You would be amazed what the ordinary guy knows. |
There's a danger of the Internet just becoming loud, ugly and boring with a thousand voices screaming for attention. |