A thumbsucker is not enough in this competitive world. It's important to base it on something that your eyes have seen. It makes it much fresher.
Admitting weakness seems to be such a severe psychic threat for Bush that when he makes a mistake it's safer just to reinforce it. The strategy creates a perverse system of rewards and punishments.
All first ladies, except the natural clotheshorses like Jackie and Nancy, improve their fashion sense and haircut during the first term.
Cyberspace is populated by a coalition of political obsessives and pundits on speed who get it wrong as much as they get it right. It's just that they type so much they are bound to nail a story from time to time.
I just simply write as it moves me. I may be writing about a book or a movie or a person, places where I've been or something I've done. Or politics. It's going to what's on my mind at the moment.
I just wanted to have fun for myself-I felt I had a lot to say, and I realized that I missed having a magazine as a place to express my ideas. The Times column is a place for me to unload those perceptions.
I love to run smart essays and commentary. But it doesn't replace the other kind of reporting.
I sat next to an actor who told me he didn't know anything about John Kerry except he had been a doctor. I realized it truly is another planet.
I think for a young journalist, it's better to write for the Web at the moment than it is for print.
I'm trying to be entertaining without being mean.
In the end, Dan Rather's legend skewered him, CBS and the craft of journalism.
In TV, you always feel you are standing on the tracks of an oncoming train.
Laura Bush may be unique among recent first ladies for getting through a whole term without putting the wrong foot forward.
Nothing is better for a young journalist than to go and write about something that other people don't know about. If you can afford to send yourself to some foreign part, I still think that's by far the best way to break in.
The cloud that descended on Black Rock on Monday was not for the past but the future. How much will this debacle chill the pursuit of other risky investigations?
The first lady's preternatural serenity was on display throughout the Walters interview. She sat at her husband's side with those lovely, wise cat's eyes and subtle Mona Lisa smile. No straining for inclusion.
There is no magazine I want to edit now. TV is new and scary enough to fascinate me until I really feel I'm good enough.
To win respect, the networks seem to feel they have to keep absurdly overstating their anchors' reporting cred.
TV journalism is a much more collaborative, horizontal business than print reporting. It has to be, because of the logistics. Anchors are wholly dependent on producers to do all the hustling.
What was striking in the Walters interview was how often the president looked over at Laura for validation. Even with his amped-up second-term cockiness, she's still his security blanket.
When Clinton was in power nobody ever hesitated to analyze the president's emotional neediness and eagerness to please as the obvious characteristics of an adult child of an alcoholic.
When Peter Jennings is anchoring a breaking news story for ABC, he's a human hyperlink to the world, seemingly able to absorb and process information through the cheeks of his behind.
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