- Nov 07, 2020
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- Nowadays
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- Nov 07, 2020
Nowadays I'm not even sure if newspapers take into account whether a person is a good writer.
- Art
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- Nov 07, 2020
I always thought writing was the foundation and the basis for journalism in the same way being able to draw is the foundation for art.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Well, you know, in any political campaign, you're gonna have people on one side that are gonna slip a reporter something because they think it'll hurt the guy on the other side.
- Make
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- Nov 07, 2020
But the reporter has the responsibility to determine, number one, whether that is true, and number two, to make a judgment as to whether it's in the public interest and whether or not it should be part of the debate.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
They've asked me to do this temporarily. I don't know what temporarily means. Life is temporary.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I want to try to talk like normal people talk, not just stand there and bark at the camera.
- Book
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had an idea in the beginning to do a book about some of the events that I had covered, just various stories that I've covered. Reporters spend a lot of time telling each other tales about how they covered stories, and that's what this book started out to be.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
And as a result, I guess I'm just kind of a rubberneck. I'm kind of a - someone who likes to see things and likes to see these events and talk to the people who make them happen. But I don't think journalists are as important as the people they cover.
- Father
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- Nov 07, 2020
And I came away from that experience, and it was a very difficult experience - I came to understand that you have to practice at being a good father and practice at being a good husband, just as you have to practice at being a good journalist.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had - all my life, everybody who knew me thought that I would probably grow up to be a reporter, a newspaper reporter because we didn't have much television in those days.
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
And after about two years, I realized that creative writing was not going to help you ace those biological tests. So I switched over to journalism. I didn't graduate with honors, but I did graduate on time and with some doing.
- Game
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- Nov 07, 2020
But here's the deal: If I were smart, I could figure out curling. If I were even smarter, I could figure out why people would actually watch other people doing it. I have tried. I can't. I can't even figure out the object of the game. Is it like darts? I just don't get it.
- Handed
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- Nov 07, 2020
American politics used to be an amateur sport. But somewhere along the way, we handed over to professionals all the things people used to do for free.
- Game
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- Nov 07, 2020
The truth is the Super Bowl long ago became more than just a football game. It's part of our culture like turkey at Thanksgiving and lights at Christmas, and like those holidays beyond their meaning, a factor in our economy.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Iraq war was fought by one-half of one percent of us. And unless we were part of that small group or had a relative who was, we went about our lives as usual most of the time: no draft, no new taxes, no changes. Not so for the small group who fought the war and their families.
- Great Way
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- Nov 07, 2020