People will always be vulnerable to lies and liars, even if they’re reporters.
— Tom Junod (@TomJunod) January 17, 2013
The human condition is grounded in belief, because you have to work harder at skepticism.
— Tom Junod (@TomJunod) January 17, 2013
I got fooled once by a subject. Caught it [...]
“If you think of this area behind the berms as a bathtub, even as a seven-foot-high bathtub, you had water pouring in for more than six hours,” said Tom Marturano, an engineer and the commission’s director of solid waste management and natural resources. “It’s not like a tsunami-type wave like they had in [...]
It’s actually a disgrace that they’re taking this long to debate this. After Katrina, the government had no problem getting together and helping out. I think we forget that this is the United States, and that we’re all one here. This should not be taking this long.
— The mayor of [...]
These people gave me what amounted to a death sentence. Donald Trump, in 1989, my case hadn’t even started yet. He took out full-page ads in New York City’s newspapers calling for the reinstatement of the death penalty specifically for my case.
Had this been the earlier part of the century, my name [...]
PEOPLE born in the shadow rather than the middle of big things respond in all sorts of ways. Some become spectators or voyeurs, while others turn into haters, cursing the fate that put them at a remove. Then there are those who can’t help but aspire, inexorably drawn toward the glow.
People from New [...]
People sometimes say to me, ‘I just want the facts.’ Just the facts, please. Just the facts, ma’am. And these people are liars. They don’t think they’re liars. They don’t mean to be liars, but that’s what they are. Because nobody wants just the facts. It’s not who we are.
What we’ve created is this sort of urban wetlands complex. We’re right on New York City’s doorstep, and when you’re on New York City’s doorstep, you’ve got airplanes overhead. You’ve got trains going by all your natural areas. You’ve got the New Jersey Turnpike cutting the Meadowlands in half. The uniqueness of the [...]
How do you know what will make a good story?
I think about that a lot. There are ingredients, but actually quite often, when you don’t have the ingredients, it still ends up being good, and sometimes even better, so it shows you should never have too many hard and fast rules. But I think [...]
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