Word: context
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Once you pick a story topic, what's your reporting process like? It differs. I'm interested in placing things in a larger context and in making lateral connections. A lot of my process is informed by the notion that two mildly good stories put together sometimes equal one really good story. (Read Malcolm Gladwell's TIME...
...your last book, Outliers, you talked about how success comes not just through genetics or hard work but through context - the situations we stumble into fortuitously. Can you talk a little bit about your own lucky breaks? I've had millions. I was in one of the last generations to sign on with newspapers when newspapers were still hiring lots of young people. To go to the New Yorker and get the editor I got were lucky breaks. I'm also lucky to be an outsider in America. A lot of what Americans take for granted I think...
...Context is everything, though, and Letterman has always maintained a public persona as - and I say this with affection - a jerk. Entertainers suffer when their scandals undercut their image (see Peewee Herman), but Letterman has usually kept as chilly about his personal life as he keeps the Ed Sullivan Theater. If you boycotted the work of every heel, liar and philanderer, you'd opt out of much of the creative output of human history...
...Canada's economy may have shown a big job improvement in September, but that has to be seen in the context of losing 210,000 manufacturing jobs over the past 12 months. According to CME, Canada normally sacrifices 25,000 jobs and $1.9 billion in revenue for every one-cent improvement against the U.S. dollar...
Catching crabs is bad in any context, but can be especially so for rowers. For the uninformed, such crew lingo may be startling, but it’s just a sample of what will be heard this upcoming weekend at the 45th Annual Head of the Charles Regatta...