When I was a bad writer, I would consciously imitate other NPR writers who I thought were wonderful. I suppose that everyone's artistic practice is different. But I collaborate and sometimes don't agree at all with my collaborators' opinions. It forces you to understand why you don't agree with something: what's the fight you're picking.

Generally the aesthetics of broadcast journalism seem to me to be incredibly primitive.

Honestly, there are so many things about structuring a story for film and telling a story for film that are really different from doing radio.

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