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Ron Suskind
American
Journalist
Born:
Nov 20
,
1959
Almost
Daily
Get
News
Truth
You
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If you write something that gets a bad response, or someone commits candor or is off message, there are often consequences almost immediately when it appears in the paper or a magazine, that somebody gets called into the boss's office. And sometimes it can result in a loss of access for the reporter.
Ron Suskind
You
Result
Sometimes
Somebody
Consequences
Paper
Immediately
Response
Bad
Magazine
Someone
Something
Boss
Write
Almost
Message
Access
Loss
Off
Office
Reporter
Gets
Often
Candor
Appears
Message matters. Message matters almost as much as actions.
Ron Suskind
Matters
Almost
Message
Much
Actions
I absolutely reject that idea that the press is liberal and what it does is liberal. In my view, it's like accusing a doctor of malpractice or a lawyer of malfeasance.
Ron Suskind
Doctor
Lawyer
Liberal
Press
Absolutely
Idea
Like
Does
Malpractice
Accusing
View
Reject
If you write something the White House doesn't like, they take you in and say, 'If you ever write something like you did today, nobody from the White House will ever talk to you again,'
Ron Suskind
Today
You
Will
White
White House
Say
Something
Write
Take
Nobody
Like
Talk
House
Did
Again
Ever
To try to be authentic these days, to ask questions of the people in power - it's difficult. This administration has evolved new techniques to handle people like me. Their strategy, in a word, is simple: ignore them.
Ron Suskind
Me
People
Simple
Try
Word
Power
Strategy
Difficult
This Administration
Evolved
Administration
New
Days
Like
Questions
Authentic
Handle
Them
Ask
Ignore
Techniques
The substance of faith is a hope in the unseen.
Ron Suskind
Hope
Faith
Unseen
Substance
I don't have to deal with the issues of the daily news cycle.
Ron Suskind
News
Daily
Deal
Issues
Cycle
Daily News
By virtue of some of the ways the game is played, in terms of message discipline, in terms of access for reporters, and especially in the way that sources and subjects, especially famous subjects, treat the media, almost by default there's more news that's falling into books.
Ron Suskind
News
Game
Treat
Discipline
Virtue
Books
Way
Ways
Some
More
Almost
Terms
Message
Access
Falling
Sources
Subjects
Reporters
Famous
Media
Default
Played
Wars tend to be very public things, they are visible. There are correspondents traveling with the troops and you get daily dispatches.
Ron Suskind
Daily
You
Visible
Troops
Tend
Very
Get
Public
Wars
Traveling
Things
Al-Qaeda has a kind of loose, almost entrepreneurial structure with lots of cells in various countries that are semi-independent.
Ron Suskind
Kind
Structure
Various
Entrepreneurial
Almost
Countries
Loose
Lots
Cells
Al-Qaeda
The fact is that in a way, journalists become a kind of default in the system when you don't have substantive two-party back-and-forth inside of the government.
Ron Suskind
Government
You
Become
Way
System
Kind
Inside
Fact
Journalists
Substantive
Default
Two-Party
The fact is, most journalists I know are not particularly political. They move around a lot.
Ron Suskind
Political
Fact
Journalists
Know
Most
Particularly
Around
Lot
Move
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