The media is absolutely essential to the functioning of a democracy. It's not our job to cozy up to power. We're supposed to be the check and balance on government.

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

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

During a news conference, when he was standing with the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, President [Donald] Trump responded to a question from an Israeli reporter about the rise in anti-Semitic attacks - by boasting about his election victory.

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

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.

Chelsea Manning attempted to commit suicide twice last year.