I don't appreciate, really, talking to journalists when there's a sense of wanting to kick up dust to sell more papers or get more hits on their Internet site.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I don't like journalists and I hardly ever talk to them.
I like it when journalists are nice to me, and it's happening more and more.
It is grievous to read the papers in most respects, I agree. More and more I skim the headlines only, for one can be sure what is carried beneath them quite automatically, if one has long been a reader of the press journalism.
I do not read newspapers. I do not watch television. I am not interested in current events, although I will occasionally discuss them if other people want to discuss them.
Speaking generally, people who are drawn to journalism are interested in what happens from the ground up less than they are from the top down.
We journalists make it a point to know very little about an extremely wide variety of topics; this is how we stay objective.
People are worried about what's going to happen to journalism - and they should be. Every day, the blogosphere is getting better and print media is getting worse; you have to be an idiot not to see that.
People can get their news any way they want. What I love about what's happened is that there are so many different avenues, there are so many different outlets, so many different ways to debate and discuss and to inquire about any given news story.
I'm not going to have some reporters pawing through our papers. We are the president.
You know it's easy here to buy journalists.