The shouting and opinion and jokes don't exist if there isn't first a story.
Most of the stories I have covered in 45 years have been gray stories.
There are very few really stark black and white stories.
If you go to the ball game, you don't need to read the game story.
A debate has one purpose, one purpose only, and that is to facilitate the exchange of ideas directly between two candidates, and that's it.
I wanted to be a bus driver when I was a kid. I look at bus driving through the eyes of a little boy. I see it as glamorous.