“I fucking hated those kids in the journalism school,” he told one interviewer. “Nobody had a sense of humor at all.” The atmosphere was too preprofessional, the other students too primped and polished. “The broadcast kids were worse than anything,” he added, likening them to wannabe Anderson Coopers who lacked mental firepower. Those kids were missing the story. They were crippled by their fluency in journalese, too caught up in their ascent to power, speaking as if from a teleprompter. They mistook 10-dollar words for intellect, sobriety for seriousness. When it came to cool, they were
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