The real news is bad news.
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Write the news as if your very life depended on it. It does!
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I am a journalist and, under the modern journalist's code of Olympian objectivity (and total purity of motive), I am absolved of responsibility. We journalists don't have to step on roaches. All we have to do is turn on the kitchen light and watch the critters scurry.
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If I'd written all the truth I knew for the past ten years, about 600 people -- including me -- would be rotting in prison cells from Rio to Seattle today. Absolute truth is a very rare and dangerous commodity in the context of professional journalism.
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Gonzo journalism is a style of reporting based on William Faulkner's idea that the best fiction is far more true than any kind of journalism -- and the best journalists have always known this. True gonzo reporting needs the talents of a master journalist, the eye of an artist/photographer and the heavy balls of an actor. Because the writer must be a participant in the scene, while he's writing it -- or at least taping it, or even sketching it. Or all three. Probably the closest analogy to the ideal would be a film director/producer who writes his own scripts, does his own camera work and somehow manages to film himself in action, as the protagonist or at least a main character.
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In the real world, nothing happens at the right place at the right time. It is the job of journalists and historians to correct that.
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I see journalists as the manual workers, the laborers of the word. Journalism can only be literature when it is passionate.
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Personal columnists are jackals and no jackal has been known to live on grass once he had learned about meat -- no matter who killed the meat for him.
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Journalism consists largely in saying Lord James is dead to people who never knew Lord James was alive.
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If the reporter has killed our imagination with his truth, he threatens our life with his lies.
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Every journalist owes tribute to the evil one.
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