Ken Auletta
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"Ken Auletta" is an United States/American writer, journalist and media critic for The New Yorker.

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I've never tried to be uber-sexy, ... I want to age gracefully. At 48 now, I've finally lost my baby fat. I want to look nice and feel attractive. ... I grew my hair out and got it lightened for the simple reason that I'm pretty gray, and this means I don't have to go to the hairdresser as often.

He's an interesting character.

Sure we play rough, they said, but look what others do to us.

Journalists prize independence - not teamwork.

Objectivity is a false god. We are human beings and we screw up or have flaws that are hidden from us. But fairness and balance are possible. Not stereotyping people we write about is possible. We can be skeptical without being cynical.

I think the press, which arguably was cowed by the (Bush) administration in the run-up to the war with Iraq, was certainly not cowed in covering the aftermath of Katrina.

The press was doing its job, and in doing its job, they saw this clash between what they were witnessing with their own eyes and what officials were telling them.

He aired documentaries on weighty subjects at a time when CBS, NBC and ABC had largely abandoned them, ... kept his team in Baghdad during the first Gulf War in 1991, even though all the other networks pulled theirs out.