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Not knocking your work, Nulle. Anyone who works with reporters on a regular basis is as good as a combat vet. Salute.
I'm not bragging either, but just sharing war stories. But I've done more than 3,000 interviews. I did a full hour on CNN, was interviewed by all the biggies at one point or another: Dan Rather, Wolf Blitzer, even Walter Cronkite. Including Mike Wallace on 60 Minutes.
I've been interviewed by everybody from part-time freelance wannabes to the above names. I mean everybody in between. Live radio, live TV, newspaper, wire services, all of it. About half of it extremely hostile and accusative (I was one of two media spokesmen for the Challenger Space Shuttle accident.)
In all that time, I knew maybe three reporters who I'd call decent. One of them I'd even like to have as a friend - he's Jay Barbree, NBC at Cape Canaveral.
The rest? I think less of them than the stuff I'd scrape off my shoes after a walk through the kennel.
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