The Democratization Of News Is Fine And

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 Calibration From An Aggregator Or Newspaper, Where The No. 1 Story Is One They Consider Important, [and] They're Usually Right.

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.

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.

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?

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