I Think America Has A Brilliant Future.

The 'gatekeepers' Became A Term Of Revile. But When You Think About The Flow Of Information, I Personally Value Immensely The Calibration A News Organ, Whether It's On The Web Or In Print, Brings To The Floodwaters Of Information. I Haven't The Time To Read All The Dispatches Of The Associated Press, For Example. It's Fantastic What They Put Out, It's Extremely Good, From All Over The World. I Like When Someone Acts As A Filter.

Journalism Is Not Easy. It's The First Rough Draft. I Don't Think You Need To Wait Around Until You Have The Definitive Thing. You Record What's There; Don't Delude Yourself That This Is The Ultimate Historical View.

In Journalism It Is Simpler To Sound Off Than It Is To Find Out. It Is More Elegant To Pontificate Than It Is To Sweat.

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 Paratroopers. We Interviewed 500 People For Our Report, And Not One Of Them Could Give Us A Total Picture Of What Was Happening. It Was Like The Rashomon Effect Multiplied A Million Times. For A Website Or Even A Newspaper To Be A Collector Of Information Flow Is Not The Highest Form Of Journalism.

The Camera Cannot Lie, But It Can Be An Accessory To Untruth.