The travel writer seeks the world we have lost - the lost valleys of the imagination.
Alexander CockburnThe First Law of Journalism: to confirm existing prejudice, rather than contradict it.
Alexander CockburnNothing but mountains filled with barbarous ethnics with views as medieval as their muskets, and unspeakably cruel too.
Alexander CockburnThere is never finality in the display terminal's screen, but an irresponsible whimsicality, as words, sentences, and paragraphs are negated at the touch of a key. The significance of the past, as expressed in the manuscript by a deleted word or an inserted correction, is annulled in idle gusts of electronic massacre.
Alexander Cockburn