I guess, as a reporter, I always thought that my biggest strength was that I could get anybody to talk to me. I wasn't the best writer, but I could get people to talk to me.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I think the way to be an influential journalist is to be accurate and to be fair and to get things right and to really characterize things in an honest way, versus being really snarky or cheerleading.
I've always thought of myself as a reporter.
I was so thrilled being a reporter, because it gave you the kind of access to people that you wouldn't ever get to meet.
I think as an investigative reporter I had tough standards, but I don't think of myself as a tough person.
I became a journalist partly so that I wouldn't ever have to rely on the press for my information.
I thank God I was a reporter before I became a writer.
My biggest strength is I'm courageous, or if I am afraid of something, I do it anyway. I do what I feel. It's nothing personal against anyone, so that courageousness has been very good to me.
I always felt journalists had a very clear idea of what they wanted to write about me before the interview began.
Journalists don't have audiences - they have publics who can respond instantly and globally, positively or negatively, with a great deal more power than the traditional letters to the editor could wield.
My only advantage as a reporter is that I am so physically small, so temperamentally unobtrusive, and so neurotically inarticulate that people tend to forget that my presence runs counter to their best interests.