Attempting To Get At Truth Means Rejecting

The Democratization Of News Is Fine And Splendid, But It's Not Reporting. It's Based On A Fragment Of Information Picked Up From Television Or The Web, And People Are Sounding Off About Something That's Not Necessarily True.

If Rupert Murdoch Wants To Charge For Content Online, He Will Succeed In So Far, But No Further Than What He Provides That Is Unique And Can't Be Found Anywhere. It Doesn't Seem To Me That If He Wants To Charge It Will Be A Blow To Universal Freedom And Liberty Of Mankind.

I Often See Cases Of Internet News Where There's No Reconciliation For What's Gone Before And What's Newly Arrived. That Training For Me - Which Was Absolutely Brutal And I Was Terrified - Was So Important, Especially Later In Life When One Was Faced With Conflicting Stories And Conflicting Evidence.

I Think A Lot Of Newspapers Have Lost Touch With That Sense Of Community, Which So Impressed Me As A Teenager When I Had To Knock On People's Doors.

Television And Radio Are What I Call Sequential Media; They're Not Simultaneous Media. With Simultaneous Media, You Can Scan Your Eye Down An Electronic Or Print Page And Pick Among Six Or Seven Stories You Might Like And Want To Read. With Television And Radio, You Have To Wait Until The Guy's Finished Talking About The Balloon Boy, Which I Don't Have The Slightest Interest In, To Find Out That All Hell's Broken Loose In Baghdad. Because They've Chosen That Day To Start With The Balloon Boy.