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The journalist must do his work in a kind of deliberately induced state of moral anarchy.

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'The Rachel Maddow Show' is a piece of sleight of hand presented as a cable news show. It is TV entertainment at its finest.

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You could say that any book that takes a position is not fair, unless you keep saying, 'On the one hand, on the other...' and take a great deal of trouble to present both sides. That kind of journalism tends not to be very interesting.

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Biographies never feel as real as the best fiction. There is such a discontinuity between the narrative and the material it comes from, which is always such a mixed bag of letters, recollections, and other data.

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Keeping one's eyes open, listening, watching, being quiet, adopting some of the techniques of the psychoanalyst in talking to people, will bring you that surface from which something more comes.

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The journalist cannot create his subjects any more than the analyst can create his patients.

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The dominant and most deep-dyed trait of the journalist is his timorousness. Where the novelist fearlessly plunges into the water of self-exposure, the journalist stands trembling on the shore in his beach robe.

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The journalist confines himself to the clean, gentlemanly work of exposing the griefs and shames of others.

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Journalists who swallow the subject's account whole and publish it are not journalists but publicists.

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I don't go out of my way to be friendly, because it's completely unnecessary. People tell you what they are going to tell you no matter what.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Writer

Born: Unknown

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