Twitter and Facebook are brilliant- tools, the journalistic uses of which are still being plumbed. They are great for disseminating interesting material. They are useful for gathering information, including from places that are inaccessible.

My dad was an engineer, and he became the CEO of Chevron. His was an engineer's mind-set: Everything's kind of a problem how do you approach the problem?

I make a joke that I'm the Internet curmudgeon, but 'wary' is a good way to put it.

Anyone with an Internet service provider can be a pundit or whatever they want.

A vote for Mitt Romney is a vote for Satan.

I'm a Capricorn, actually.

Everything is accessible to everyone all the time, and I think there are wondrous things to treasure with what the Internet has made available to journalists. But I think it's also had some effects that are less pleasant. It has chipped away at a sense of privacy and secrecy.