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"Often, what you see in the media is driven by economic forces."
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"There is no more respected or influential forum in the field of journalism than the New York Times. I look forward, with great anticipation, to contributing to its op-ed page."
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"Interviews were invented to make journalism less passive. Instead of waiting for something to happen, journalists ask someone what should or could happen."
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"So sad "Criminal Minds: Suspect Behavior" the series ended open and it was made in 2011 and it ended in 2011!"
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"A newspaper is an oversized book with adverts and an expiry date."
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"Through TV people turn their family living rooms into meditative dens of death and violence worship."
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"We are nauseated by the sight of trivial personalities decomposing in the eternity of print."
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"In a society where dirt sells, for every good story told as it is, you will hear the whole of that day's 10 bad stories sensationalized; although in reality, it could be that 100 good deeds happened that day which went unsung."
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"If you believe in journalism, you don't insult good journalists."
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"The press, the machine, the railway, the telegraph are premises whose thousand-year conclusion no one has yet dared to draw."
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"If you're nice, decent, attractive, get good grades and are talented, no one wants to read about that...They want to read what's out-of-the-ordinary, the scandalous, the shocking and the tragic. They want a story; they want to be captivated and what's typical does not give them that...unless, of course, that person ends up a victim, commits a crime or loses their minds via a love affair."
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"Your first duty as a writer is to write to please yourself. And you have no duty towards anyone else."
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"Often, what you see in the media is driven by economic forces."
Media
"The whole story of the comfort women, the system of forced sexual slavery, the medical experiments of Unit 731, is not something that is in the US psyche. That is changing because many books are coming out."
Medical
"There is also an epidemic of infertility in this country. There are more women who have put off child-bearing in favor of their professional lives. For them, the only way they are going to have a family is to adopt from China."
Family
"After working as a journalist I went to a writing program at Johns Hopkins. It was interesting because it was neither journalistic nor historical, but it emphasized writing style, and afterwards I was asked to write my first book."
Writing
"There are now hundreds of thousands of new engineers that are being trained in China. If people start finding themselves losing their jobs, not to the Chinese here but because China has become such a dominant force - then there could very well be a backlash."
People
"There isn't much discussion of ruling class in America even in Boston, probably one of the most class-conscious cities in the country?"
Society
"There isn't much in the way of pure communist spirit, because the whole nation seems to be engaged in capitalistic enterprises. Much of the country still operates under government control."
Government
"It was clear that the special interest groups in California really wanted the Chinese to be shut out of the country, because that was where the racial tension was the greatest."
Nation
"When you take something extremely broad, then it is not a work of expansion or work of compression. It's hard because you have to decide what to throw out."
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