My son Ethan dictates terms and takes all my time. That's pretty perfect when I have the chance to let it occur.
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I covered everything. City general assignment, crime, politics, whatever. I worked on the rewrite desk for a time because I was quick and clean. My bread and butter was city crime and the drug culture in particular. You name it, I could give you eighteen inches of clean copy in twenty minutes on deadline.
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We will address American ideas about equal opportunity and how true we are to that ideal,
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HBO's a lot smarter than NBC. They can afford to be. They don't care if you're watching every show on HBO. If you're a subscriber and you're only getting it for two shows out of 10, they've still got your 17.95. And therein lies all the difference.
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So, too, for reporters who routinely write stories using morgue clippings for background, or who work to catch up on a competitors reportage and err by not independently confirming every single detail. So, too, for every columnist who ever used reported material -- either his own newspapers or that of another -- as the given terrain on which to maneuver. A lot of people need to be fired, apparently.
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I would be lying if I said the journalism doesn't reflect my own choices as a reporter and a writer: what to say, what to emphasize, how to say it, what is true or untrue.
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