Mark Halperin
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There's all this coverage.
Oh, when's the next hearing going to be or whatever?
Like real people don't care about that.
They care about characters and storytelling.
So whatever your beat, whatever your platform, tell great stories with great characters.
And again, a lot of younger reporters and older reporters, they don't seem to understand that.
As a journalist?
Yeah.
No, it hadn't changed at all.
Two things.
Hold powerful interests accountable.
Hold all powerful interests accountable.
to the public interest and tell the great stories of our time in an interesting way.
Hasn't changed at all.
It's what I was doing at the beginning of my career.
It's what I do now.
And to make sure there are a lot of jokes.
Well, I definitely think that's a problem.
I'm not sure it's a bigger problem now.
It may be less of a problem now because the institutional bias is not as pernicious in some ways as the liberal bias, but not understanding America