I'm sure you have arguments with your friends, but they don't get printed up and magnified in the papers.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
The papers, you know, they're always gonna just make stuff up. They think it's in the public interest.
Academics don't normally manage to alter people's way of thinking through their strength of argument.
The papers are only going to show what they want the readers to see. It's all propaganda, to be honest.
Back in the East you can't do much without the right papers, but with the right papers you can do anything The believe in papers. Papers are power.
I need privacy. I would think that because what I do makes a lot of people happy that I might deserve a little bit of respect in return. Instead, the papers try to drag me off my pedestal.
Best I can do for them is to give them every piece of information I can find and let them make the judgments. That's just my basic view of my function as a journalist.
In print, people can do anything to you. Everything you do is picked apart. People love it; they're waiting for you to make a mistake.
I do think people should be proud and supportive of their friends, in publishing and everywhere else.
I always give a print to everybody I photograph, and some of my subjects have told me they have a hard time hanging them up at home.
It's not necessary with your friends to discuss something you know you will disagree profoundly on.