The one indication that I got that I was doing the right job in Bosnia was that at different periods of time all the factions came down very hard on me.
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Good journalism, I think, represents life and if you try to organize something too neatly it usually blows up in your face and doesn't really happen the way you want it to.
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In some ways the domestic reporting is a lot easier because Americans will talk to you about anything.
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But the difference is that in an overseas assignment there is an emphasis on the facts but there's also a much greater emphasis on interpretation.
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I went back to the States and started at a small newspaper in Riverside County, California, covering the police; I was making $280 a week covering the police.
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The work is a calling. It demands that type of obsession.
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