I Think America Has A Brilliant Future.

Internet News Cycles Are By The Minute, And Any Fool Can Take A Headline From The Associated Press And Send It Out As News.

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.

Propaganda Is Persuading People To Make Up Their Minds While Withholding Some Of The Facts From Them.

My Wife [tina Brown] Co-founded The Daily Beast, So I Have No Hostility To The Web Or Internet. A Number Of Print Friends Of Mine Regard It As The Worst Thing That's Ever Happened, But I Don't.

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.