Transmitting Information Is Easier Than Creating Understanding.

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.

I Love Craftsmanship Of Any Kind, A Job Well Done Either By My Chiropractor Or Carpenter, And I Am Addicted To Print, The Type, The Ink. But My Basic Passion Is Journalism And I Can't Live Without Being Online.

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 For Just Running Everything. Just Run It! That's One Of The Advantages Of The Web, You Can Run Everything - But You Don't Help The Reader Find Out What's Important.

Transmitting Information Is Easier Than Creating Understanding.

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.