Whenever you're reporting, there's always something you can't say or write, but the questions, you always want to get as close to that line as possible. You want to ask the tough questions.
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Reporting provides reminders that things are always more complicated than you think.
Great questions make great reporting.
When you practice reporting for as long as I have, you keep yourself at a distance from True Believers. Either conservatives or liberals or Democrats or Republicans.
I'm in the business, as a journalist, of asking tough questions.
I write because I don't know how to ask my questions any other way.
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.
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.
Writers are nosy people; we are endlessly curious: we ask questions when we shouldn't - we peek around corners when we are least expected.
I think all good reporting is the same thing - the best attainable version of the truth.
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.
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