So I rang up British Telecom, I said 'I want to report a nuisance caller', he said 'Not you again'.
I didn't care for beat reporting, covering the same thing day after day - short attention span.
I haven't reported my missing credit card to the police because whoever stole it is spending less than my wife.
My goal, as always, is simply to inform the public about an issue that is nearly impossible for them to learn about on their own. That is my only goal as a reporter.
Why does it appear that interested readers so often attribute flaws to 'the press' rather than taking particular issue with particular reports?
Style is the most valuable asset of the modern artist. That's probably why so many styles are reported lost or stolen each year.
You know it's always amazed me - I think the most startling thing that's happened in the last couple of decades is that there is no sort of objective reporting anymore.
Had there been a reporter along with Lieutenant Calley when he massacred those people in Vietnam, I think that probably wouldn't have happened.
It's no longer just reporting the headlines of the day, but trying to put the headlines into some context and to add some perspective into what they mean.
It seems to me if you don't know anything about child development you shouldn't intimate in your 'reporting' that you do.
A distant cousin sent me some genealogy report on my father's side, and it's sort of what I suspected. Coal miners for generations... four or maybe five generations.
Why a four-year-old child could understand this report. Run out and find me a four-year-old child. I can't make head nor tail out of it.
Clear? Huh! Why a four-year-old child could understand this report! Run out and find me a four-year-old child, I can't make head or tail of it.
When you look at Clark Kent when he's working at the Daily Planet, he's a reporter. He doesn't fly through the air in his glasses and his suit.
What I've learned in 40 years of consumer reporting is that the market is imperfect, and some people get ripped off.
I was an English major in college, took a ton of creative writing courses, and was a newspaper reporter for 10 years.
As a kid, I spent every summer bent over a stack of books, obsessively writing detailed reports on each one.
For whatever reason, I tend to get reporters who are maybe in the middle of intense therapy, and they turn what's supposed to be a professional interview into therapy for themselves.
So reports of my madness, as they say, were greatly exaggerated. Not that I give a bugger either way.
There are some movie stars in Hollywood that are so scared, they also tell the reporter that they are recording them, in case there is something wrong with what they wrote about them in the papers.
In a very straightforward way, I am a terrible reporter. I'm not someone who can go into a story and not get involved.
