Occupation: Journalist Birth: February 14, 1944
I think all good reporting is the same thing - the best attainable version of the truth..
Good journalism should challenge people, not just mindlessly amuse them..
June 17, 1972. Nine o'clock Saturday morning. Early for the telephone. Woodward fumbled for the receiver and snapped awake. The city editor of the Wa….
Even at the end of a presidential election campaign, we have no way to know what Mitt Romney really believes..
Increasingly, the picture of our society as rendered in our media is illusionary and delusionary: disfigured, unreal, out of touch with reality, disc….
Hillary [Clinton] is neither the demon of the right's perception, nor a feminist saint, nor is she particularly emblematic of her time perhaps more o….
The failures of the press have contributed immensely to the emergence of a talk-show nation, in which public discourse is reduced to ranting and ravi….
The American Revolution and Declaration of Independence, it has often been argued, were fueled by the most radical of all American political ideas..
Religion is one of the fundaments of Hillary Clinton's character and politics..
John Paul was the first modern pope to grow up in a secular culture: He attended public schools, danced with girls - indeed, as a teenager he had a c….
What will a Hillary Clinton presidency look like? The answer by now seems obvious: It will look like her presidential campaign, which in turn looks i….
Today, ordinary Americans are being stuffed with garbage..
The Congress is a dysfunctional institution; its broken. One of our three branches of government is broken..
The pressure to compete, the fear somebody else will make the splash first, creates a frenzied environment in which a blizzard of information is pres….
There had always been black people in and out of our house, and from the outset I had been taught that for them life was defined by struggle and fill….
For the first time, the weird and the stupid and the coarse are becoming our cultural norms, even our cultural ideal..
Public policy in the twentieth century was about protecting and expanding the social compact, based on recognition that effective government at the f….
The lowest form of popular culture - lack of information, misinformation, disinformation, and a contempt for the truth or the reality of most people'….
Donald Trump is american neo-fascist. The word "neo" meaning "new", has a lot to do with it, a new kind of fascist in our culture, dealing with an au….
The reality is that the media are probably the most powerful of all our institutions today and they, or rather we [journalists], too often are squand….
You can't serve the public good without the truth as a bottom line..