People who are against hate are not a fringe minority, not even a silent majority, but are a silenced majority, silenced by the corporate media.

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.

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

Beyond the borders of wealthy countries like the United States, in developing countries where most people in the world live, the impacts of climate change are much more deadly, from the growing desertification of Africa to the threats of rising sea levels and the submersion of small island nations.

The U.S. news media have a critical role to play in educating the public about climate change.

In the meantime, it just makes it a little harder to smile. But so does the world.