People want to hear your stories about these wonderful experiences you have, and that's what press tours are for.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Writers say many true things about their own experiences with publicity and promotion.
I'm a fairly quiet and private person. So I haven't sought publicity.
I've chosen not to talk about my really private life to the press - I've never invited a huge amount of attention.
I'm a storyteller; that's what exploration really is all about. Going to places where others haven't been and returning to tell a story they haven't heard before.
I've been on big tours ever since I started, but you can't just go out there and headline, you have to do it right.
I am grateful that as a reporter and as an anchor, people have allowed me to share their stories.
I feel that I've worked with a lot of interesting people, and I have no regrets. I'm just curious about what I might have done if I'd had people in my life then who did explain what the publicity game was.
I just want people to hear me and my story.
Stories, as we're taught in journalism school early on, are told through people. Those stories make our documentaries powerful. You can explore someone's culture, you can explore their experience, you can explore an issue through human beings who are going through it.
All tours are filled with humiliation. My publisher once hired a private jet to fly me to a venue where 1,000 people were waiting. It almost bankrupted him.