Political pundits are under professional obligation to regard the obvious as being too obvious.

In Washington journalists can afford to live almost as well as people who work for a living.

I'm here as a radio journalist but am not even sure which part of a tape recorder takes the pictures.

I arrived in the middle of a press conference - as boring a thing to sit through if you don't know the language as it is if you do.

Journalists aren't supposed to praise things. It's a violation of work rules almost as serious as buying drinks with our own money or absolving the CIA of something.