When you actually can get people to do stuff, which is always as a newseroom, kind of a, like, it's not a normal organization. I mean, the power of the times though, is a real thing. It reminds me when i was at the daily news, when back in the late days of it mattering a lot what was on the cover of a tablede. What was inside didn't matter that much, but if you got the wood, so you have some big, splashy story on the wood,. Then all o the local t v news, starting at six wo'ld just be talking about it, and radio. And so by like,
Ben Smith is the media columnist for The New York Times. He was the founding editor-in-chief of BuzzFeed News.
”I do think there's some kind of personality flaw deep in there of wanting to like, you know, find stuff out and tell people.... I'm not sure that's a totally sane or healthy personality trait, but it is definitely, for me, a personality trait…. I think that in political reporting, certainly, there's a kind of reporter who thinks that their job is basically to pull the masks off of these monsters. And I generally tend to think all these people—with some exceptions—are weird and complicated and often doing really awful things. But they aren't necessarily irredeemable or impossible to understand…. They're interesting.”
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