This brought on the news media, TV crews, interviews, and numerous public appearances.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
A lot of people take shots at news channels.
Journalists have made celebrities into an industry.
Some people are probably scratching their heads and saying, How did that happen? That's because some of the media didn't give the public the full story.
People magazine had been around for a short period of time, but nobody had thought about putting entertainment news on a nightly basis on television.
In journalism I can only tell what happened. In fiction, I can show it.
The press like to talk to actors. They mustn't be surprised when actors talk back to them.
You turn on the TV, and you see very bland interviews. Journalists in the United States are very cozy with power, very close to those in power.
I mean the idea of this is that it's a good thing for the public to hear interviews like this and that there will be an inevitable amount of fewer interviews if people that the press talks to wind up thinking, well, it's not really a CBS correspondent.
Reporters have to use their imagination, really put themselves in the shoes of the person they want to interview.
I can't think of an instance at MSNBC where anything I said on the air was influenced by what was going on behind the scenes.