i don't have any personal dislike for julian rechald or for carlos watson. i sort of separate my work from the impact pretty almost, like a little religiously, like eting. The job is to report on what happened,. Does that come easily to you? I do this thing sometimes when i have a great scoop, that i also, in some ways feel it's going to stress me out, is it? I'll start calling people who i know will talk me into it. Like i remember when i it is tip about an uberis a uber story that's too complicated to explainoh, that's the one. No one told you was off the r
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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