"When I worked in Los Angeles covering hard news, very often when something important would happen I'd be off in the woods covering something unimportant, which was more interesting to me."

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"When I worked in Los Angeles covering hard news, very often when something important would happen I'd be off in the woods covering something unimportant, which was more interesting to me."

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"Leaks and whispers are a daily routine of news-gathering in Washington."

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"Local television and local TV news isn't telling the voters about local candidates."

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"There will always be a certain element of extremists on either side, left or right, who no mainstream news outlet is going to satisfy."

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"Every news organization should ideally be as broadly representative as possible."

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"Here's the good news. If I realize that I'm insane, then I'm okay with it. I'm not dangerous insane."

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"You can criticize any news staff in some ways, but the one thing that you couldn't call the Village Voice staff was a staff of stenographers, taking notes from public figures and just passing them on."

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"I get most of my news from the Jon Stewart Daily Show. It's the most level commentary you can find. You have to laugh, because it's all so true. It's the closest thing to a counterculture."

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