Occupation: Journalist Birth: June 28, 1928
My wife [Tina Brown] co-founded the Daily Beast, so I have no hostility to the web or Internet. A number of print friends of mine regard it as the wo….
The credibility of a newspaper or news magazine is essential so you can check it for accuracy. I'm not saying it's not valuable. One can make a case ….
What I'm driving at is let's not lose sight in our excitement of the democratization of the media that some things are bad, false and ugly - and no a….
Throughout America's young history there has been a necessary tension between the individual and the group..
Actions are always more complex and nuanced than they seem. We have to be willing to wrestle with paradox in pursuing understanding..
When came the invasion of privacy.That kind of thing turns the newspaper from a friendly organ - not necessarily appeasing everybody - into the enemy….
If I want to spend the rest of my life reading one day's output of information, which is about what it would take, OK fine. But I personally prefer c….
This impressed me when I was the editor of the Sunday Times [of London] - we had the "Bloody Sunday" killings of 13 unarmed civilians by British para….
I wrote about Bosnia at the time. Somebody looked out their window and saw gangsters coming down the street and doing ethnic cleansing. I said that w….
It's a fascinating time, I think. I do believe that with all the qualifications I've said - [such as] the uncertain accuracy of the web - nonetheless….
People were murdered for the camera; and some photographers and a television camera crew departed without taking a picture in the hope that in the ab….
I think there's a lot of benefit in letting people vent. When I was on the Manchester Evening News, we got 500 letters a day, and part of my job as e….
[We need to] protect copyright at all costs. Don't do cheap deals with Google and these other cyber-monsters. Recognize that the creative artist has ….
Internet news cycles are by the minute, and any fool can take a headline from the Associated Press and send it out as news..