When I First Came To The United

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

It's A Fascinating Time, I Think. I Do Believe That With All The Qualifications I've Said - [such As] The Uncertain Accuracy Of The Web - Nonetheless The Access To Speeches, Documents Is Unparalleled With The Ease Of Gathering Information. If I Had Had That Access When I Was An Editor Or Coming Up, It Would Have Made My Life So Much Easier. As It Was, Everything Took So Much Longer.

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

I Think There's A Lot Of Benefit In Letting People Vent. When I Was On The Manchester Evening News, We Got 500 Letters A Day, And Part Of My Job As Editor Was To Edit Them. And I Thought That Was One Of The Best Things In The Newspaper, And It Was Instituted By An Editor Known As Big Tom, Who Said 'this Is The Voice Of The People.' And He Was Quite Right.

Throughout America's Young History There Has Been A Necessary Tension Between The Individual And The Group.