I don't think fairness means that you give equal time to every point of view no matter how marginal. You weigh the sides, you do some truth-testing, you apply judgment to them.

You don't want to go around willy-nilly suing news organizations. That's probably self-defeating.

I think there's been a decline in the public's access to what's being done with their tax dollars, what's being done in their name. I hope that that will be repaired.

The queen of aggregation is, of course, Arianna Huffington, who has discovered that if you take celebrity gossip, adorable kitten videos, posts from unpaid bloggers and news reports from other publications, array them on your website and add a left-wing soundtrack, millions of people will come.

Beating up on the so-called elite media has a nice populist ring to it.

Whether or not Twitter makes you stupid, it certainly makes some smart people sound stupid.

Liberation movements - prizing ends over means - are not always particular about their friends or scrupulous about their transactions.