The press keep asking me, 'What was your biggest mistake?' But if I had made a big mistake, they'd all be writing about it, wouldn't they?
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
The best way of dealing with the press, customers, and critics is to come clean when things go wrong and admit when you make a mistake. We are humans, and no one expects us to be perfect.
A lot of things that should not be written were written without checking with me, things that were not in good taste. That hurt me. That is why I stopped talking to the press. Because they didn't want to ask me. They just wanted to write what they felt like.
I've made some great mistakes in my life, but, you know, they were honest mistakes.
I've made my share of mistakes, but had the good fortune to have them not be so public.
The press may hate me, and I know my battles with them are not over, but that doesn't matter.
I personally made lots of mistakes during my 10-12 years as a newspaper editor. Some of which I felt were big mistakes I have tried to address.
When we make a mistake, it becomes front-page news. We don't need any reporter telling us how badly we played.
Careful writing is important for many reasons, not least that intelligent but hurried reporters will trust the presser, resulting in a cascade of secondary damage.
The reporter claimed he was going to write the article from my point of view. Instead, he made me sound like a little idiot. It made me never want to do another interview again.
If there's one thing that everyone can agree on, it's that, right or wrong, they hate the press.