Any journalist who doesn't stick to the day's news is sort of part journalist, part anthropologist. Once the excuse for the story stops being - it happened today - then you're square right in the other territory of journalism, which is just straight up documenting of how we live, and what we think of each other.
"Ira Jeffrey Glass" is an American public radio personality and the host and producer of the radio and television show This American Life.
If you enjoy these quotes, be sure to check out other famous journalists! More Ira Glass on Wikipedia.Often they don't take advantage of the latitude they have. They spend a lot of their early career trying to be the - official version - of a reporter. It's all about replicating a kind of stodgy form that already exists.
For most people when you say - public radio - they automatically think it's like medicine. We only do stories that amuse and interest us. For people who haven't heard the show, we describe it like a movie where there are characters and you're interested in what's going to happen to them.
Hearing it in her words, it makes it all the more real. It's something that's hard to get across in print, hard to do in any other way. ... We all hear about AIDS in Africa, but this makes it real.
Her vision of what the country is, and what she should be writing about, is totally her own. She's utterly in step with the current moment, ... She's in touch with contemporary culture and the things people in their 20s are interested in, but it's all informed with a level of attention and idealism about America as a place you would expect from somebody much older and tweedier.
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