Actions Are Always More Complex And Nuanced

What I'm Driving At Is Let's Not Lose Sight In Our Excitement Of The Democratization Of The Media That Some Things Are Bad, False And Ugly - And No Amount Of Electronic Gloss Will Make Them True, Beautiful And Accurate.

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.

We Always Talk About How Everyone Is Unifocal. You Can't Possibly Be Interested In Jazz And Beethoven. Of Course You Can. You Can't Both Be Reading A Newspaper And Be Online. Of Course You Can. We Shouldn't Be Obsessed With A Gun To Your Head, 'you Either Read A Newspaper Or Die!'

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.

When I First Came To The United States In 1956 I Fell In Love With Things - Mainly The Vitality And The Freedoms.