A big part of reporting is just being present. You have to show up ten days in a row to get the one telling detail.

As a reader, when the writer gets sentimental, you drift, because there's something fishy going on there. You recognize a moment that's largely about the writer and the writer's own need to believe in something that might not in fact exist. As a reader, you think, 'Where did the story go? Where did the person I'm reading about go?'

What one reads in the newspaper and what one sees on the street are absolutely not the same.

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