For 50 Years My Father Worked For

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.

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

This Impressed Me When I Was The Editor Of The Sunday Times [of London] - We Had The "bloody Sunday" Killings Of 13 Unarmed Civilians By British Paratroopers. We Interviewed 500 People For Our Report, And Not One Of Them Could Give Us A Total Picture Of What Was Happening. It Was Like The Rashomon Effect Multiplied A Million Times. For A Website Or Even A Newspaper To Be A Collector Of Information Flow Is Not The Highest Form Of Journalism.

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.

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.