Tabitha Soren Quotes
"If the breaking news event has something to do with young people, specifically with MTV's audience, there was a higher chance that I would actually go cover it with a television camera instead of just write the story myself and read it on the air."
- Tabitha Soren
(Related: People, Chance, News, Television)
"When I was a freelancer, I thought this journalism thing was a racket, and now that I'm where I am now, I know it's a racket."
- Tabitha Soren
(Related: Thought, Journalism, Now)
"Some of those stories in local newspapers are just as dull and boring as the stories that I get from on-line services, which are basically sort of straight news."
- Tabitha Soren
(Related: News, Newspapers)
"Online, you have things like Slate Magazine, which has a lot of commentary and analysis of stories, so it gives you a fuller picture. I would compare that to a news magazine or the New Republic."
- Tabitha Soren
(Related: News)
"Knowing policy does help make the gossip more understandable."
- Tabitha Soren
(Related: Policy, Gossip, Help)
"It's not like I just have to go to Washington and go to the White House everyday, and go to the same press conference at 10 in the morning and then be briefed at 4 in the afternoon, and then get a story on at 6."
- Tabitha Soren
(Related: Press, Washington)
"It's nice to know about something as soon as it happens, and obviously a newspaper can't provide that."
- Tabitha Soren
"In the New York Times, you're going to get completely different information than you would in the USA Today."
- Tabitha Soren
(Related: Information, Today)
"If the breaking news story had to do with hard news, politics specifically, I had a lot to do with it. If it had to do with music, Kurt Loder was more involved."
- Tabitha Soren
(Related: Politics, Music, News)
"I've been told I'm a player, but people still don't always return my calls."
- Tabitha Soren
(Related: People)
"I'm surprised and disappointed in American culture."
- Tabitha Soren
(Related: American, Culture)
"I worked at NBC and MTV for two years, and it was very interesting to see the comparisons of audiences and the way that I would have to present a story to the two different places."
- Tabitha Soren
(Related: Audiences, Comparisons, Present, Years)
"Gossip is easy, politics is hard."
- Tabitha Soren
(Related: Politics, Gossip)
"For the last year I've been at Stanford University as a student and I've had time to read the newspaper."
- Tabitha Soren
(Related: Time, University)
"Caring about policy is important - people in washington forget."
- Tabitha Soren
(Related: People, Policy, Caring, Forget, Washington)
"At NBC I wasn't really sure if the grandparents were going to get my sense of humor on a particular topic."
- Tabitha Soren
(Related: Humor, Grandparents, Sense)
"At MTV, it's very nice sometimes to be able to be very specific. Specificity really makes a news story interesting because you can color it in that personality."
- Tabitha Soren
(Related: News, Personality)
"You have a specific, defined audience-at MTV, they assume the audience to the news is 15 to 30 years old and they do a lot of research about the things they're interested in."
- Tabitha Soren
(Related: News, Old, Research, Years)
"At MTV, although the audience is smaller, I found it more interesting to deliver news to a specific group of people, because my story then did not have to try to be all things to all people."
- Tabitha Soren
(Related: People, News)