As a reporter, I approach every situation knowing that everyone has his or her own agenda. It's not a bad thing; it's just a fact.
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Everybody comes to the journalist with an agenda.
My goal, as always, is simply to inform the public about an issue that is nearly impossible for them to learn about on their own. That is my only goal as a reporter.
A journalist covering politics, most of us are aware of the necessity to try to be sure we're unbiased in our reporting. That's one of the fundamentals of good journalism.
You're required to be outspoken in journalism, and in television you're exposed anyway, because everyone watches it.
A journalist enjoys a privileged position. In exchange for not being able to participate in the rough-and-tumble issues of a community, we are given license to observe it all, based on the understanding that we'll tell everyone what happens fairly and squarely. That's harder than it sounds.
Every journalist who is not too stupid or too full of himself to notice what is going on knows that what he does is morally indefensible.
For somebody who is a journalist, I can be awfully unobservant sometimes.
Reporters tend to find in others what they are suited to find, so there is a whole school of reporting where they are cynical about the world, and everything reinforces that. Whereas I tend to be optimistic and be amused by people and like them, even rather bad people.
My close proximity to many of the newsmakers can give me a different perspective about people in politics and what they might say than others who don't know them.
My job as a reporter is not to know what I think.
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