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I, perhaps wrongly, assume that people actually read articles that interest them rather than just headlines.

I don't read all the newspapers.

I don't even read the newspaper; I don't read that crap.

Tabloid news is tabloid news.

Be able to notice all the confusion between fact and opinion that appears in the news.

Political reporters no longer get to decide what's news. The days when a minister gave briefings to a dozen lobby correspondents, and thereby dictated the next day's headlines, are over. Now, a thousand bloggers decide for themselves what is interesting. If enough of them are tickled then, bingo, you're news.

We sort of read two or three big newspapers but we don't get the flavor of the local events, the local news as much.

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.

We now assume that when people turn on the evening news, they basically already know what the news is. They've heard it on the radio. They've seen it on the Internet. They've seen it on one of the cable companies. So that makes our job a bit different.