What we call 'the news' always has tried to tell a story, and it's always told the story it wanted or, put most positively, whatever story it believed needed telling.
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Newspaper reporting is really storytelling. We call our articles 'stories,' and we try to tell them in a way that even people who don't know all the background can understand them.
My inclination, as an old-school, classically trained journalist, is not to go with a story unless I have it hard. It's not good enough to say something based on rumors that were flying around.
Why, I wonder, should the popularity of a news story matter to me? Does it mean it's a good story or just a seductive one?
Reporters do decide what is news, but they don't invent it, even if they sometimes become part of the story by risking their lives in a danger zone, as in the case of ABC's Bob Woodruff and Doug Vogt.
As a journalist, the details always tell the story.
God, newspapers have been making up stories forever. This kind of trifling and fooling around is not a function of the New Journalism.
There is always sleaze in the news. And you know what? The news is always a combination of things that are interesting and things that are important.
I think that a great newspaper is one that puts a real premium on digging to get the story behind the story.
To a journalist, good news is often not news at all.
Television news is now entertainment, and the stories are being written by the people that have a special interest in them.
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