It's always better to deliver the news yourself rather than allow your boss to be surprised.
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When you're in the news business, you always expect the unexpected.
Nothing is as embarrassing as watching your boss do something you assured him couldn't be done.
News reporting is a cycle: No matter how much you work at sending a message, it's only successful if it's received.
The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy.
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.
You don't tell us how to stage the news and we don't tell you how to cover it.
In the business world, bad news is usually good news - for somebody else.
A lot of my work is a matter of reacting to surprises in life.
People can say anything they want to. If they don't want to get the news from me, get it from somebody else. It's not something I'm going to worry about, I'm sorry.
It is the merit of a general to impart good news, and to conceal the truth.
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