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

The media—stenographers to power.

Whether you vote for me or you don't vote for me, I really want to be your greatest champion. And I will be your champion, whether you vote for me or not.

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

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.

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Go to where the silence is and say something.