If there are three words that need to be used more in American journalism, commentary, politics, personal life... it's the magic words 'I don't know.'
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Writers who hedge their use of unfamiliar, infrequent, or informal words with 'I know that's not a real word,' hoping to distance themselves from criticism, run the risk of creating doubt where perhaps none would have naturally arisen.
I'm not sophisticated when it comes to politics, when it comes to journalism.
The central dilemma in journalism is that you don't know what you don't know.
I wrote it three times - with a Thesaurus.
Conversation would be vastly improved by the constant use of four simple words: I do not know.
I know the difference between journalism and a slogan.
My vocabulary is vast and expert, and I don't think I overuse any word.
To use a word I never thought I'd apply to myself, I've sort of become a Luddite with regard to information. Where everyone else is getting their Twitter feeds from 'The New York Times' and their 'Huffington Post' emails, I live in a little bit of a bubble.
Most writers I know go for word counts, and I used to be a journalist, so I guess that's ingrained.
There is one word in America that says it all, and that one word is, 'You never know.'