It is well known that Turkey has more imprisoned journalists than any other country, but as a result of the chilling effect of these prosecutions on the press, many stories never make the news.
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Foreign journalists writing about Turkey like to focus on the most fundamental divide in Turkish society: the rift between religious conservatives and secularists.
I have been attacked in Turkey more for my interviews than for my books. Political polemicists and columnists do not read novels there.
We journalists are a bit like vultures, feasting on war, scandal and disaster. Turn on the news, and you see Syrian refugees, Volkswagen corruption, dysfunctional government. Yet that reflects a selection bias in how we report the news: We cover planes that crash, not planes that take off.
I know some really outstanding Turkish journalists, and have been pleased and honored to be able to join with them a few times in their courageous protests against state terror and repression.
To a journalist, good news is often not news at all.
There aren't enough good journalists. There are too many who really weren't groomed to be reporters and, as a result, some of the reporting is shallow.
Journalism never admits that nothing much is happening.
There is no higher claim to journalistic integrity than going to jail to protect a source.
All of the violence that doesn't occur doesn't get reported on the news.
Journalists couldn't do their jobs overseas without taking risks, and the same is true for diplomats and intelligence officers.
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