American writer (born 1932)
(born February 7, 1932) is an American author. As a writer for and magazine in the 1960s, Talese helped to define . Talese's most famous articles are about Joe DiMaggio and Frank Sinatra.
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G. Talese
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Talese, Gay
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Тализ, Гэй
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Гэй Тализ
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Талез, Гэй
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Гэй Талез
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Г. Тализ
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Г. Талез
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You should be proud of your profession because there's less lying in journalism than in any other profession. They lie in education, they lie in politics, they lie in banking, they lie in labor; there's liars all over the place. Sports? Full of liars. And there are liars in journalism, but if there are liars, journalism will out them.
If you're a child of store owners, if you're brought up in a store, you learn good manners. You have to be genial, well-liked. You're not going to sell a customer if you're rude. You also get with different age groups, and different types of people. So be respectful. Being respectful is very important. You have to learn this.
I think most journalists are pretty lazy, number one. A little lazy and also they're spoon-fed information, such as the weapons of mass destruction back in 2003.... you have these people who create a package of news, develop it as a story line, a scenario, and they find, as Mailer once said about the press, that they're like a donkey. You have to feed the donkey. The donkey every day has to eat. So [special interests] throw information at this damn animal that eats everything. Tin cans, garbage.