You can't expect that because you find a story and report it out that your newspaper and broadcasting company is going to want to publish and broadcast it - and you're going to be a hero.
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You have to go where the story is to report on it. As a journalist, you're essentially running to things that other people are running away from.
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.
If you're a good journalist, what you do is live a lot of things vicariously, and report them for other people who want to live vicariously.
God, newspapers have been making up stories forever. This kind of trifling and fooling around is not a function of the New Journalism.
I'm an expert on the NewsHour and it isn't how I practice journalism. I am not involved in the story. I serve only as a reporter or someone asking questions. I am not the story.
A news organization has a much different responsibility. I might not be telling you the whole story. I might not be telling you a story in a manner that is properly sophisticated.
Most reporters who come to me get their stories directly from press releases. Very few do what one would consider to be their professional duty.
Television news is now entertainment, and the stories are being written by the people that have a special interest in them.
I've never canceled a subscription to a newspaper because of bad cartoons or editorials. If that were the case, I wouldn't have any newspapers or magazines to read.
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.
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