I Think A Lot Of Newspapers Have

When Came The Invasion Of Privacy.that Kind Of Thing Turns The Newspaper From A Friendly Organ - Not Necessarily Appeasing Everybody - Into The Enemy. It's One Reason Why Newspapers Have Suffered Circulation Falls.

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

Some Blogs Have Become The Best Check On Monopoly Mainstream Journalism, And They Provide A Surprisingly Frequent Source Of Initiative Reporting.

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.

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!'