The queen of aggregation is, of course, Arianna Huffington, who has discovered that if you take celebrity gossip, adorable kitten videos, posts from unpaid bloggers and news reports from other publications, array them on your website and add a left-wing soundtrack, millions of people will come.

Casual reliance on unnamed sources...corrodes our credibility and, in cases that are rare but not rare enough, may abet journalistic malpractice.

Liberation movements - operating surreptitiously and conspiratorially - thrive on discipline and suspicion, and punish deviation or dissent.

The curse of a journalist is that he always has more questions than answers.

My feeling about the Internet or anything else is that the more it tends to become a cult, the more I want to call it into question.

My view of social media is that it is a set of tools, not a religion.

Beating up on the so-called elite media has a nice populist ring to it.