this event about a book called the journalist and the murder which is a famous book in the 1990s janet malcolmnd or journalist wrote that a journalist always deceives their subject. it's a confidence game that you must play if your intention is to do investigative reporting. if your intention is to read off teleprompters and to deliver and to play a stenographer and to tell the public what the two star general wants you to know, well, i would argue that's the worst deception. and you must choose between these two types of deception. but it's paramount that you tell the truth to your audience. that's what a journalist is supposed to do. >> host: how did you get started in this business? >> guest: lucky charms. i was in rutgers, which are rutgers university, state university in new jersey, and those a lot of censorship on campus. so they serve lucky charms in the cafeteria. being an irish-american, to prove a point i said that the serial was racist against my irish heritage. i thought i would be laughed at, but the dean of one of these at rutgers took me very seriously and had a meeting and info