I've learned in my years as a journalist that when a politician says 'That's ridiculous' you're probably on the right track

War coverage should be more than a parade of retired generals and retired government flacks posing as reporters.

In one of his final acts in office, President Obama shortened the sentences of 209 prisoners, pardoned 64 individuals .The list included Army whistleblower Chelsea Manning, longtime imprisoned Puerto Rican independence activist Oscar López Rivera and retired U.S. Marine Corps General James Cartwright. But missing from the list is 71-year-old Native American activist Leonard Peltier.

[The media can be] the greatest force for peace on the earth [for] it is how we come to understand each other.

Going to where the silence is. That is the responsibility of a journalist: giving a voice to those who have been forgotten, forsaken, and beaten down by the powerful.

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We have to protect all journalists, and journalists have to be allowed to do their jobs.