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.

Julian Assange, the WikiLeaks founder, has on several occasions talked about transparency as an absolute principle. I don't personally believe that.

I don't think anyone at Fox believes they are producing even-handed, impartial coverage.

The most obvious drawback of social media is that they are aggressive distractions.

A vote for Mitt Romney is a vote for Satan.

The curse of a journalist is that he always has more questions than answers.

One of the most important disciplines in journalism is to challenge your working premises.