Journalists should think of themselves as outside the Establishment, and owners can't be too worried about what they're told at their country clubs.
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I don't think journalists should talk about whom they're voting for.
There's a longstanding tradition that journalists don't cheer in the press box. They have opinions, like anyone else, but they are expected to keep those opinions out of their work.
The things journalists should pay attention to are the issues the political leadership agrees on, rather than to their supposed antagonisms.
Journalists hold themselves apart, and above, the common person. They have rules designed to ensure their objectivity and impartiality.
Journalists in newspapers and in many magazines are not permitted to be subjective and tell their readers what they think. Journalists have got to follow a very strict formulaic line, and here we come, these non-fiction writers, these former journalists who are using all the techniques that journalists are pretty much not allowed to use.
I firmly believe that any good journalist must essentially be temperamentally an outsider. I don't think full sense of belonging and security is conducive to creativity.
I think journalists have the right to their opinions but I think their opinions should be based on history and what they see, not what they feel, how long they've been waiting or whether it's raining or it's snowing or whatever.
Journalists are supposed to be skeptical, that's what keeps them digging rather than simply accepting the official line, whether it comes from government or corporate bureaucrats.
Journalists write because they have nothing to say, and have something to say because they write.
I think as journalists, we have to keep our distance from power.
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