I got in journalism for any number of reasons, not least because it's so much fun. Journalism should … - David Remnick

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If someone did this Fahrenheit 9<br>11 to get back at Bush, then they did so by killing thousands of people who DID NOT VOTE for him! Boston, New York, D. C. , and the planes' destination of California - these were places that voted AGAINST Bush!

David Remnick

I got in journalism for any number of reasons, not least because it's so much fun. Journalism should be in the business of putting pressure on power, finding out the truth, of shining a light on injustice, of, when appropriate, being amusing and entertaining - it's a complicated and varied beast, journalism.

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Journalism, some huge percentage of it, should be devoted to putting pressure on power, on nonsense, on chicanery of all kinds and if that's going to invite a lawsuit, well, bring it on.

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The world is a crazy, beautiful, ugly complicated place, and it keeps moving on from crisis to strangeness to beauty to weirdness to tragedy. The caravan keeps moving on, and the job of the longform writer or filmmaker or radio broadcaster is to stop - is to pause - and when the caravan goes away, that's when this stuff comes.

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The Communist Party apparatus was the most gigantic mafia the world has ever known.

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I would also like to see Russia not interfere in our elections.

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A. J. Liebling, one of my heroes, used to say that he could write better than anyone who wrote faster, and faster than anyone who could write better. I'm one nine-hundredth as good as Liebling, but that principle may slightly apply.

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