If You Don't Want To Get Old,

Putting People In A Room And Strapping Wires To Their Wrist To Find Out If I Make Them Tingle When I'm Telling Them About Beirut Is A Long Way From Edward R. Murrow.

'these Boat People,' Says The Government Of Hong Kong, 'they All Want To Go To America.' Well, I Swear I Don't Know Why, Do You? I Mean, Take Vietnam. Why Would Any Vietnamese Come To America After What American Did To Vietnam? Don't They Remember My Lai, Napalm, Sylvester Stallone?

Pitching Was About Fooling People, Manipulating Them, Making Them Believe In Something That Ultimately Wasn't There. Great Pitching Was Great Lying.

The Whole Town Looks As If It Had Been Left Out In The Rain Too Long And By Mistake.

Some Of The Qualities That Go Into Making A Good Reporter - Aggressiveness, A Certain Sneakiness, A Secretive Nature, Nosiness, The Ability To Find Out That Which Someone Wants Hidden, The Inability To Take 'no' With Any Sort Of Grace, A Taste For Gossip, Rudeness, A Fair Disdain For What People Will Think Of You And An Occasional And Calculated Disregard For Rules - Are Also Qualities That Go Into Making A Very Antisocial Human Being.