Occupation: Journalist Birth: January 18, 1949
A vote for Mitt Romney is a vote for Satan..
Anyone with an Internet service provider can be a pundit or whatever they want..
It's a considerable source of tragedy in the world that people stay in powerful jobs long past the point where they're a spent force..
Choosing my favorite moment in journalism would be like picking a favorite among my children. I can't pick one favorite..
Most recently, the president's reluctance to offend Senator Rick Santorum - a Catholic theocrat who believes that states should have the power to arr….
Buying an aggregator and calling it a content play is a little like a company's announcing plans to improve its cash position by hiring a counterfeit….
The queen of aggregation is, of course, Arianna Huffington, who has discovered that if you take celebrity gossip, adorable kitten videos, posts from ….
I don't think fairness means that you give equal time to every point of view no matter how marginal. You weigh the sides, you do some truth-testing, ….
Liberation movements - operating surreptitiously and conspiratorially - thrive on discipline and suspicion, and punish deviation or dissent..
Liberation movements - prizing ends over means - are not always particular about their friends or scrupulous about their transactions..
The curse of a journalist is that he always has more questions than answers..
My view of social media is that it is a set of tools, not a religion..
Julian Assange, the WikiLeaks founder, has on several occasions talked about transparency as an absolute principle. I don't personally believe that..
One of the most important disciplines in journalism is to challenge your working premises..
You don't want to go around willy-nilly suing news organizations. That's probably self-defeating..
My feeling about the Internet or anything else is that the more it tends to become a cult, the more I want to call it into question..
I think there's been a decline in the public's access to what's being done with their tax dollars, what's being done in their name. I hope that that ….
I may be the old-media id, but I think I may be entitled to some credit for being a new-media pioneer..
I don't think anyone at Fox believes they are producing even-handed, impartial coverage..
I'm convinced that the most important division in human affairs is probably not the one between left and right, liberal and conservative. It's the on….
Every technology, including the printing press, comes at some price..