Ryōan-ji Temple
Kobe Beef: What a Life
Downtown
“You have to act friendly to people you won’t like politically, socially, and ethically. You have to pay deference to the senior reporters. You have to not judge people but learn to judge the value of the information they give you. You have to cut down on your sleeping hours, your excercise time, and your time to read books. Your life will boil down to reading the paper, drinking with your sources, watching the news, checking to see if you’ve been scooped, and meeting deadlines. You will be flooded with work that seems meaningless and stupid, but you’ll do it anyway.
Let go of your preconceptions, dignity, and pride and get the job done. If you can do that, you can learn to be a great reporter.
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Jake Adelstein
from Tokyo Vice