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

A typical Ponzi scheme involves taking money from investors, then paying them off with money taken from new investors, rather than paying them from actual earnings.

Journalism is the only profession explicitly protected by the U.S. Constitution, because journalists are supposed to be the check and balance on government. We're supposed to be holding those in power accountable. We're not supposed to be their megaphone. That's what the corporate media have become.

Go to where the silence is and say something.

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.

If 2,000 Tea Party activists descended on Wall Street, you would probably have an equal number of reporters there covering them.

Chelsea Manning attempted to commit suicide twice last year.