I recently did the David Letterman Show about my book. He was very serious and made no jokes and it caught me off guard a little bit. He was much more serious than some of the joke shows that journalists get on.
From Bob Woodward
Many people have their reputations as reporters and analysts because they are on television, batting around conventional wisdom. A lot of these people have never reported a story.
I'm not going to name some of my colleagues who are very well-known for their television presentation, but they wouldn't know new information or how to report a story if it came up and bit them.
I give lectures for money, but all the money goes to charity. So, I make no money from it.
We need to police ourselves in the media.
The legislator learns that when you talk a lot, you get in trouble. You have to listen a lot to make deals.
There's hostility to lying, and there should be.
When you see how the President makes political or policy decisions, you see who he is. The essence of the Presidency is decision-making.
Any suggestion that I'm writing about political operatives because I'm interested in political operatives misses the entire point.
I don't think voters give a hoot about the character of their political advisors, except to the extent that character reflects on the candidates.
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