I think that a great newspaper is one that puts a real premium on digging to get the story behind the story.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Some of those stories in local newspapers are just as dull and boring as the stories that I get from on-line services, which are basically sort of straight news.
Newspaper reporting is really storytelling. We call our articles 'stories,' and we try to tell them in a way that even people who don't know all the background can understand them.
What we call 'the news' always has tried to tell a story, and it's always told the story it wanted or, put most positively, whatever story it believed needed telling.
God, newspapers have been making up stories forever. This kind of trifling and fooling around is not a function of the New Journalism.
The newspaper is, in fact, very bad for one's prose style. That's why I gravitated towards feature stories where you get a little more leeway in the writing style.
Why, I wonder, should the popularity of a news story matter to me? Does it mean it's a good story or just a seductive one?
I believe the Times is a great newspaper, but a profoundly fallible one.
I read a lot of news online, but I like buying a paper because I'll read an article I wouldn't normally read. And more often than not, the articles that you don't expect to care about are the ones that grab you.
A good newspaper is never nearly good enough but a lousy newspaper is a joy forever.
A good newspaper, I suppose, is a nation talking to itself.