I Think America Has A Brilliant Future.

The Credibility Of A Newspaper Or News Magazine Is Essential So You Can Check It For Accuracy. I'm Not Saying It's Not Valuable. One Can Make A Case For Just Running Everything. Just Run It! That's One Of The Advantages Of The Web, You Can Run Everything - But You Don't Help The Reader Find Out What's Important.

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

I Had Been At The Newspaper For A Few Months. It Wasn’t Regarded As The Paper, It Was Their Paper. There Was A Sense Of Community Because They Reported, We Reported, I Reported The Little Things, The Whist Drives, The Weddings, The Funerals, The Little Speeches. In One Sense It Was The Most Boring Copy In The World To Anyone Picking It Up, But, On The Other Hand, It Was Crucial To The People Who Lived In Those Communities.

What I'm Driving At Is Let's Not Lose Sight In Our Excitement Of The Democratization Of The Media That Some Things Are Bad, False And Ugly - And No Amount Of Electronic Gloss Will Make Them True, Beautiful And Accurate.

[we Need To] Protect Copyright At All Costs. Don't Do Cheap Deals With Google And These Other Cyber-monsters. Recognize That The Creative Artist Has To Be Maintained.