Corporate America Corrupted The Watchdogs That Were

The Key Question Facing Those Of Us Working In The Media (old And New) Is Whether We Embrace And Adapt To The Radical Changes Brought About By The Internet Or Pretend That We Can Somehow Hop Into A Journalistic Way Back Machine And Return To A Past That No Longer Exists And Can't Be Resurrected. There Is No Question That, As The Industry Moves Forward And We Figure Out The New Rules Of The Road, There Will Be - And Needs To Be - A Great Deal Of Experimentation With New Revenue Models.

Those Who Have Matured Spiritually, Now Put Service To Others At The Center Of Their Quest And Of Their Lives.

There Can Be No Clearer Indication Of How Undemocratic The Way We Finance Campaigns Is Than The Fact That Only One-quarter Of 1% Donate $200 Or More, And Only One-tenth Of 1% Gives $1,000 Or More.

Success For Me Is Going Beyond Money And Power, And Measuring Success Based On A Third Metric - One Founded On Well-being, Wisdom, Our Ability To Wonder And To Give Back. Money And Power By Themselves Are A Two-legged Stool. You Can Balance On Them For A While, But Eventually You're Going To Topple Over. Basically, Success The Way We've Defined It Is No Longer Sustainable.

Moving Forward, Investigative Journalists Need To Train Themselves To Be Media Amphibians - Just As Comfortable With The Classic Verities Of Great Journalism As They Are With Video, Twitter, Facebook, And, Most Importantly, Citizen Journalism.