“Phone sex is not so unlike being a reporter.”

“Phone sex is not so unlike being a reporter .A central challenge of success at both is keeping random strangers – horny guys, hostile hedge-fund managers – on the phone, talking to you, confessing to you, growing fond of you, resolving to talk to you again. And at all times, phone-sex operators, like reporters, are expected to remain detached, wise to “The Game,” objective-but in a way, that’s crap. It’s not easy to become beloved by strangers if not a single part of you truly yearns for that love.”

From Marueen Tkacik’s “Look at Me! A writers search for journalism in the age of branding” in this month’s print version of the Columbia Journalism Review

Well. I have always been told I’ve got the voice for it….