Jon Friedman: One of the Good Guys
Who said journalists aren't helpful? Sometimes when a writer interviews someone, there are statements that are left unsaid or implications that linger between the lines. It's up to the writer to either clarify those statements or let the subject dangle on the end of their own ill-chosen words.
Take, for example, Jon Friedman's profile of The New York Times' Hollywood correspondent Sharon Waxman on MarketWatch. Comparing the impact of The Times to that of her former employer, The Washington Post, Waxman says something that almost—almost—could be construed as negative. Luckily, Friedman saves her:
"Now that I'm at The New York Times, people return my calls much more than they did when I was at the Washington Post," she says, not to embarrass the Post but to underscore the Times's clout in the entertainment industry. "If you didn't have a strong paper behind you, [the critics] would take the ground out from under you."
Phew! For a second there, we were embarrassed for The Post.
