Power corrupts, and there is nothing more corrupting than power exercised in secret..

All news is an exaggeration of life..

Speaker Newt Gingrich says that what is wrong with the present system is not that people abuse welfare but that welfare abuses people..

Good journalism is being criminalized or otherwise rendered perilous to its best practitioners. Attack a government agency like the CIA, or a Fortune….

There was a vacuum in investigation, and the press began to try men in the most effective court in the country..

Murrow covered something because it needed coverage. He wasn't trying to get an audience just for the sake of it..

Sincerity: if you can fake it, you've got it made..

I have no doubt that the nation has suffered more from undue secrecy than from undue disclosure. The government takes good care of itself..