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Appearing On The Front Page Of The New York Times Even Given The State Of Papers Today Is Still Something That's Seen By A Lot Of People.

Recently It's Become Much To My Surprise, Something That Does Happen. For Example, I Used To Get Almost All Of My Stories, And It's Probably Still True, From Newspapers. Primarily From The New York Times. No One Ever Really Thinks Of The New York Times As A Tabloid Newspaper And It Isn't A Tabloid Newspaper. But There Is A Tabloid Newspaper Within The New York Times Very, Very Often.

They Say Seeing Is Believing, But The Opposite Is True. Believing Is Seeing.

I Used To Work As A Private Detective Years And Years Ago. And My Boss Gave Me This One Very Simple Piece Of Advice About Trying To Figure Out Who To Interview First In Any Investigation. His Recommendation: Always Pick The People Who Were Fired. Pick The People Who Are Pissed Off.

We Have More Information - A Glut Of Information - Than Ever Before, And Perhaps Less Knowledge. That's What's Peculiar. And The Only Way You Can Deal With It, I Suppose, Is To Make Fun Of It. I Would Rather Watch Comedy Central For The News Than I'd Like To Watch Any Other Program On Television. Maybe That Shows You The State Of Affairs.