American - Journalist | November 20, 1959 -
The substance of faith is a hope in the unseen.
Ron Suskind
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The informed, unmanaged question. That's the most dangerous thing at a press conference anywhere.
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If you write something the White House doesn't like, they take you in and say, 'If you ever write something like you did today, nobody from the White House will ever talk to you again,'
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To try to be authentic these days, to ask questions of the people in power - it's difficult. This administration has evolved new techniques to handle people like me. Their strategy, in a word, is simple: ignore them.
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I don't have to deal with the issues of the daily news cycle.
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If you write something that gets a bad response, or someone commits candor or is off message, there are often consequences almost immediately when it appears in the paper or a magazine, that somebody gets called into the boss's office. And sometimes it can result in a loss of access for the reporter.
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By virtue of some of the ways the game is played, in terms of message discipline, in terms of access for reporters, and especially in the way that sources and subjects, especially famous subjects, treat the media, almost by default there's more news that's falling into books.
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I've been a reporter for 20 years, and I don't ever get things wrong. That's important in terms of my professional status.
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Message matters. Message matters almost as much as actions.
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The fact is, I can vote for anybody; independents, Republicans, Democrats. But I'm a registered Democrat in the District of Columbia.
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Wars tend to be very public things, they are visible. There are correspondents traveling with the troops and you get daily dispatches.
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Al-Qaeda has a kind of loose, almost entrepreneurial structure with lots of cells in various countries that are semi-independent.
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