I think people of my generation became journalists - you know, right after the broadcast pioneer fathers - because we wanted to report the big stories.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
My father was and is a great journalist. Thirty years ago, I was studying broadcasting in college, and the problem was I wasn't nearly as good as my father. I wasn't as quick or as smart as my old man, and I realized it would be a long time before I was ever going to be, and I decided to do something else.
My father was a journalist.
My father was a newspaper editor, so I was surrounded by journalists my entire life. I think the fact that he was so well known may be why I chose to go into magazines and move to the States at a young age.
I became a journalist partly so that I wouldn't ever have to rely on the press for my information.
There is no doubt that the way journalism worked when I was growing up and getting started has changed forever.
I became a journalist because one didn't have to specialise.
Everybody I knew, practically, was a journalist when I was a kid - my father, all of his friends. I never wanted to be like those people.
Long before the arrival of reality TV - before speed cameras, before recording angels on buses and lampposts - I felt I was living in a country that already knew how to watch itself. It was journalism that held the responsibility for seeing who we were and noticing what we did.
I thank God I was a reporter before I became a writer.
I always saw the best reporters as ones you hardly ever saw other than when they were back in the newsroom, writing their stories.
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