"I must be doing something right. I've been around for a long time"
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The subtext is reputational triage. Rivera's career has been defined as much by spectacle as by reporting: the Al Capone vault fiasco, tabloid talk-show theatrics, later the cable-news gladiator circuit. In that ecosystem, criticism is not a disqualifier; it's oxygen. The quote quietly reframes detractors as accidental collaborators: if you've spent decades being debated, mocked, praised, and re-hired, then your relevance is measurable even when your credibility is contested.
It also reveals a very modern media logic: "right" doesn't necessarily mean ethically, or journalistically, right. It can mean correctly calibrated to attention. Rivera isn't claiming purity; he's claiming durability. There's a working-class pragmatism to it, too, the veteran's mentality that you don't last by accident. In an industry that chews up personas, he offers the simplest credential: time served, still standing, still talking, still watched.
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APA Style (7th ed.)
Rivera, Geraldo. (2026, January 17). I must be doing something right. I've been around for a long time. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/i-must-be-doing-something-right-ive-been-around-48314/
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Rivera, Geraldo. "I must be doing something right. I've been around for a long time." FixQuotes. January 17, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/i-must-be-doing-something-right-ive-been-around-48314/.
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"I must be doing something right. I've been around for a long time." FixQuotes, 17 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/i-must-be-doing-something-right-ive-been-around-48314/. Accessed 12 Feb. 2026.







