In the end, Dan Rather's legend skewered him, CBS and the craft of journalism.
— Tina Brown
I love to run smart essays and commentary. But it doesn't replace the other kind of reporting.
Admitting weakness seems to be such a severe psychic threat for Bush that when he makes a mistake it's safer just to reinforce it. The strategy creates a perverse system of rewards and punishments.
I'm trying to be entertaining without being mean.
I just wanted to have fun for myself - I felt I had a lot to say, and I realized that I missed having a magazine as a place to express my ideas. The Times column is a place for me to unload those perceptions.
I think for a young journalist, it's better to write for the Web at the moment than it is for print.
I just simply write as it moves me. I may be writing about a book or a movie or a person, places where I've been or something I've done. Or politics. It's going to what's on my mind at the moment.
