Some Blogs Have Become The Best Check

Actions Are Always More Complex And Nuanced Than They Seem. We Have To Be Willing To Wrestle With Paradox In Pursuing Understanding.

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 Absence Of Cameramen Acts Might Not Be Committed. Others Felt That The Mob Was Beyond Appeal To Mercy. They Stayed And Won Pulitzer Prizes. Were They Right?

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 The Access To Speeches, Documents Is Unparalleled With The Ease Of Gathering Information. If I Had Had That Access When I Was An Editor Or Coming Up, It Would Have Made My Life So Much Easier. As It Was, Everything Took So Much Longer.

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 Was The Thing That Would Happen In The Future, Someone Phoning In What They Were Seeing On The Scene. Whether It's The Huffington Post, The Daily Beast, Drudge Report Or The Bbc, All Those Reports, You Have To Assume There's A Real Person [who] Has Credibility.

I Had Been At The Newspaper For A Few Months. It Wasn’t Regarded As The Paper, It Was Their Paper. There Was A Sense Of Community Because They Reported, We Reported, I Reported The Little Things, The Whist Drives, The Weddings, The Funerals, The Little Speeches. In One Sense It Was The Most Boring Copy In The World To Anyone Picking It Up, But, On The Other Hand, It Was Crucial To The People Who Lived In Those Communities.