Bill Kovach, Nieman Foundation CuratorThe interesting thing about Stan, I think, in the context of journalism, is that we're talking very often about the issue of a point of view versus this phenomenon, whatever it is, of objectivity. I think that it's worth noting that precisely whether you like or don't like what he does, he's creative about it in the context of American journalism. I'm always fighting this. I'm always getting pressure to make things this or that. Editors do this all the time, and I hate it.
Nothing is black or white.
There's all this stuff in there. Good writers know that. We're pressured to do that. I was pressured to do that with this global warming story. On the one hand you've got 5,000 scientists saying this thing is real.