[On journalists:] We are a noisy, imperfect lot, struggling to scribble what has been called the first draft of history.
I find having a column a very difficult form of journalism. I'm not a natural like Tom Friedman and Anna Quindlen.
Journalism, spooked by rumors of its own obsolescence, has stopped believing in itself. Groans of doom alternate with panicked happy talk.
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