The only way to do news on television is not to be terrified of it.
On the Northern Ireland question, for instance, the British and Irish governments prohibit media contact with members of the IRA, but we have always gone ahead, believing in the right to information.
Rather than doing the kind of fact-checking that normally goes with a story, you ran with certain stories for not wanting to get beat. There’s a pressure that exists in your profession. I would be surprised in any honest exchange that you say that doesn’t exist.
We journalists make it a point to know very little about an extremely wide variety of topics; this is how we stay objective.
The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read.
If – you know, it seems to me that if we see Matt Cooper being carted off to jail today, a lot of people may find that, you know, a very upsetting thing.
Judy Miller is the most innocent person in this case. I really thought that was outrageous that she was jailed and we needed as journalists to draw a line in the sand in a strong but thoughtful way.
I was given no special information by the White House, or by anybody else, for that matter.
The response to ‘The Greatest Generation’ and the books that followed has been one of the most satisfying experiences of my life.
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