Zitat des Tages von Ian Hislop:
There's an awful lot of terrible television which I could do, but I mostly stick to Have I Got News for You.
It is no longer acceptable in British politics to be fat or eccentric or religious.
Internet journalism is not a world we know very well at all. It's conducted more on the screen and less in bars, which makes it rather less useful for getting stories about people throwing up over one another, which is what one's after.
This job certainly doesn't win you a huge amount of friends, I accept that, but it is very enjoyable, and deep down I think it's probably quite a worthwhile job.
I've seen the Pokemon movie, which is probably the worst movie ever made on any subject ever.
They may well say not only is this not true, but I will put in an injunction to prevent publication. No, stories don't go in unless I'm convinced by the people who write them that they're true. And if I'm wrong, then so be it.
I'm often accused of being prudish, but the opposite is true.
You can't understand Twenties England until you appreciate it was under a cloud of mourning. Nearly everyone was grieving.
All the libel lawyers will tell you there's no libel any more, that everyone's given up.
My mother was a terrific force in my life. Wartime-generation woman, hadn't gone to university but should have done. Was very funny, very verbal, very clever, very witty.
You have a huge amount of confidence when you're younger, which slowly ebbs away for the rest of your life. You think: 'No problem. I can do that. Why shouldn't I do it?'
No, there are no hard and fast rules about sources, no printed booklet to help journalists through.
I get paid to do what I enjoy, not that common a condition.
