As any editor will tell you, startling newsroom revelations are generally met with queries about where the information came from and how the reporter got it. Seriously startling revelations are followed by the vetting of libel lawyers.
Graydon CarterMemory is often - perhaps usually - a distorting lens: what we think we remember isn't the way it was at all. It's what we'd like to remember.
Graydon CarterI walk down the street and people don't go, 'my God, there he is.' I lead as normal a life as you can lead in New York City.
Graydon Carter