It's easy to forget what intelligence consists of: luck and speculation. Here and there a windfall, here and there a scoop.
Wherever we find news, excitement, mystery and adventure, there, too, we find the newspaper reporter. Always on the alert for something new, ready to risk his very life for a scoop and finding adventure in every corner of the globe.
I have broken a lot of stories.
There's nothing more exciting than to watch a story break and grow, and to be the first one to present it to the world.
I was working at the 'New York Times,' ruing every second of my life, thinking how was I ever going to get out of here, and thinking that one could only do it the way newspaper people have always done it. I needed a scoop, and I would go out and I would dream upon coming upon fires or the sky falling in front of me or anything.
I do get most of the harder-to-get stories.
I also want to announce that I'm changing my name. I haven't told anyone. You get the scoop.
I feel like Valleywag has been different things with different writers over the years. Up and down. I think it's at their best when they get a legitimate scoop, like when someone leaks them documents. I feel like we could do more of that, breaking stories.
I like Bloomingdales, and I like a store called Scoop.
Online, you can't be scooped. If you are scooped, it's no one's fault but your own.
I scoop Emmy winners like kitty litter.
