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I think all good reporting is the same thing - the best attainable version of the truth.

Reporting provides reminders that things are always more complicated than you think.

The first step in good reporting is good snooping.

Now we have a whole separate supplier of data for Able Danger who's verifying that same information.

A big part of reporting is just being present. You have to show up ten days in a row to get the one telling detail.

It's not just that reporting gives you a bigger slice of life, gives - lends verisimilitude to what you are doing - it's that it feeds the imagination.

If we were in a similar circumstance in the future I would want to make sure that our reporting was at least as diverse as it was during this most recent war.

Good reporting should have the same standard as in a courtroom - beyond a reasonable doubt.

Good reporting is good reporting, regardless of the newness or oldness of the medium.

You have to have integrity.