Mark Halperin

Show me something I said that makes you feel confident that you know my politics.

And I never get any response that's credible.

So there are individual things I say or even believe that I think would cause someone to say, well, on that issue, you seem to have a point of view.

But mostly I'm just for everybody and against everybody.

I'm just for holding everybody accountable and trying to help all voters and all citizens understand the stories and the personalities of our time.

Oh, don't talk to anybody.

All young reporters do is text people or IM them.

And, I mean, pick up the phone.

Forget it, but really forget it.

Okay, Grandpa.

Go see someone.

go see someone in person, go to their office, talk to their assistant, talk to their colleagues.

Like that to me, I deal with all these young reporters and they just like, it's unheard, they can't imagine what it means to talk to someone in person.

Oh no, I can IM them on any of a thousand social media platforms.

I mean, it works for some things, but I can just tell you the best sources I've had in my career, I've met most of them.

Some of them I haven't, but I've met most of them.

And so that'd be, that's easily number one for me.

I'm trying to think of anything that would come close to that.

The other thing is storytelling.

Like people aren't interested in process stories.