One of the great pressures we're facing in journalism now is it's a lot cheaper to hire thumb suckers and pundits and have talk shows on the air than actually have bureaus and reporters.

  • -- Walter Isaacson 沃尔特·艾萨克森

我们现在在新闻界面临的一个巨大压力是,雇用那些喜欢吮大拇指的人、专家,在电视上主持谈话节目,要比雇用新闻机构和记者便宜得多。

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After Watergate, which happened when I was in college, I became increasingly inspired by journalism as a way to change the world. It sounds corny, but to wake the public up, to serve a higher cause.

水门事件发生在我上大学的时候,之后,我越来越受到新闻作为一种改变世界的方式的启发。这听起来很老套,但是为了唤醒公众,为了一个更高的目标而服务。

If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart.

如果你用一个人能听懂的语言和他说话,他会记在脑子里。如果你用他的语言和他交谈,那就会打动他的心。

Journalism largely consists of saying "Lord Jones is Dead" to people who never knew that Lord Jones was alive.

新闻业很大程度上就是对那些从来不知道琼斯勋爵还活着的人说“琼斯勋爵死了”。

The trouble with me is that I like to talk too much.

我的问题是我太爱说话了。