Something even minor I do is going to be reported because of things that have happened in the past. You have to be aware of that.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
When we report stories, we don't just want to talk to people who did the right thing. We want to talk to people who did the wrong thing.
I am in the bad news business. Seldom do I get to report on puppies, rainbows, or the sounds of children giggling. Well, never.
I have never indulged our society's misguided notion that my personal life is relevant to my work, so any reporting surrounding that is necessarily hearsay, speculation or fantasy.
Nobody's reported my victories, my accomplishments, my true personality - the way I treat all people.
I think my demise has been prematurely reported. That's what I think. I think I'm going take this and make medical history, and I really believe that.
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.
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've stopped war reporting. I realized that I'd answered all of my questions about war and about myself.
It seems to me if you don't know anything about child development you shouldn't intimate in your 'reporting' that you do.
The first step in good reporting is good snooping.