One of the great pressures we're facing in journalism now is it's a lot cheaper to hire thumb suckers and pundits and have talk shows on the air than actually have bureaus and reporters.

  • -- Walter Isaacson 沃尔特·艾萨克森

我们现在在新闻界面临的一个巨大压力是,雇用那些喜欢吮大拇指的人、专家,在电视上主持谈话节目,要比雇用新闻机构和记者便宜得多。

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I talk to a lot of librarians, and there's always a steady drumbeat of how libraries are places of community. But a lot of them have also recently - and just in the nick of time - refurbished, because during this economic downturn, people have a tendency to borrow instead of buy.

我和很多图书管理员交谈过,他们总是不断地强调图书馆是一个社区。但最近,许多新兴市场也刚刚翻新,因为在这次经济衰退期间,人们倾向于借钱而不是买房。

It is the role of good journalism to take on powerful abusers, and when powerful abusers are taken on, there's always a bad reaction. So we see that controversy, and we believe that is a good thing to engage in.

好新闻的作用就是对付强大的施虐者,而当强大的施虐者被对付时,总会有不好的反应。所以我们看到了争议,我们相信这是一件好事。

It's all storytelling, you know. That's what journalism is all about.

你知道,这都是讲故事。这就是新闻的意义所在。

Any time you talk about your own stuff you sound self-aggrandising.

任何时候你谈论自己的东西,听起来都像是在自我吹捧。