 I just wanted to have fun for myself - I felt I had a lot to say, and I realized that I missed having a magazine as a place to express my ideas. The Times column is a place for me to unload those perceptions. |
| To win respect, the networks seem to feel they have to keep absurdly overstating their anchors' reporting cred. |
| Admitting weakness seems to be such a severe psychic threat for Bush that when he makes a mistake it's safer just to reinforce it. The strategy creates a perverse system of rewards and punishments. |
| In the end, Dan Rather's legend skewered him, CBS and the craft of journalism. |
| I love to run smart essays and commentary. But it doesn't replace the other kind of reporting. |
| Nothing is better for a young journalist than to go and write about something that other people don't know about. If you can afford to send yourself to some foreign part, I still think that's by far the best way to break in. |
| I just simply write as it moves me. I may be writing about a book or a movie or a person, places where I've been or something I've done. Or politics. It's going to what's on my mind at the moment. |
| I'm trying to be entertaining without being mean. |
| TV journalism is a much more collaborative, horizontal business than print reporting. It has to be, because of the logistics. Anchors are wholly dependent on producers to do all the hustling. |
| In TV, you always feel you are standing on the tracks of an oncoming train. |
| The cloud that descended on Black Rock on Monday was not for the past but the future. How much will this debacle chill the pursuit of other risky investigations? |
| I think for a young journalist, it's better to write for the Web at the moment than it is for print. |
