It's just that what's important there is different there than what's important is here. Here, people care that you wrote a book or that you work in the media.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The mainstream media today has the biggest disconnect with its audience that it's ever, ever had. And as the disconnect grows and as more and more people distrust them, then the media digs in more and more and says you don't know what you're talking about, you don't know how we do our jobs, you don't know what's important.
Every book I write, the media just keeps punching me in the face.
By virtue of some of the ways the game is played, in terms of message discipline, in terms of access for reporters, and especially in the way that sources and subjects, especially famous subjects, treat the media, almost by default there's more news that's falling into books.
I've written a lot of books in my time, and to write a book about Joe McCarthy and have some of the major media paying attention, I'm not used to that.
But I do think it's important to remember that writers do not have a monopoly of wisdom on their books. They can be wrong about their own books, they can often learn about their own books.
What really matters is your movies and how good a person you are. Otherwise, tabloids and news channels writing about you only builds your curiosity and stardom and propels you to reach wider places.
When you write a book for publication, you're writing it for other people to read.
The media is a like any other group of people. Their universe is all that matters.
When you're a writer, everything that interests you feeds into your work.
People don't care about books. They care about ideas.