She doesn't remember the twentieth century. Isn't that terrifying?
Tom RachmanOne becomes more of a shit as one gets older.
Tom RachmanJournalism is a bunch of dorks pretending to be alpha males.
Tom RachmanShe hasn't known many Southerners. That twang and aw-shucks about him--it's sort of exotic.
Tom RachmanThe Internet is to news," he said, "what car horns are to music.
Tom RachmanI have to wonder if you're not being slightly naive here. I mean, are you saying that you want nothing for people? You have no motives? Everybody has motives. Name the person, the circumstances, I'll name the motive. Even saints have motives -- to feel like saints, probably. ... But still, the point of any relationship is obtaining something from another person.
Tom RachmanTag: friendship relationships
But my point, you see is that death is misunderstood. The loss of one's life is not the greatest loss. It is no loss at all. To others, perhaps, but not to oneself.
Tom RachmanThe greatest influence over content was necessity--they had holes to fill on every page and jammed in any vaguely newsworthy string of words, provided it didn't include expletives, which they were apparently saving for their own use around the office.
Tom RachmanTag: news journalism expletives
You know, there's that silly saying 'We're born alone and we die alone' -it's nonsense. We're surrounded at birth and surrounded at death. It is in between that we're alone.
Tom Rachman...looking back, has this journalism experience been a nightmare for you?'
'Not entirely.'
'Did you enjoy any of it?'
'I liked going to the library,' he says. 'I think I prefer books to people -- primary sources scare me.
Tag: journalism
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