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.

My feeling about the Internet or anything else is that the more it tends to become a cult, the more I want to call it into question.

Every time my TweetDeck shoots a new tweet to my desktop, I experience a little dopamine spritz that takes me away from... from... wait, what was I saying?

Maybe we're all a little too desperate these days for a simple formula to explain how our safe world came unhinged. That, as much as anything, may explain one of the more enduring conspiracy theories of the moment, the notion that we are about to send a quarter of a million American soldiers to war for the sake of Israel.

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

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

There is something decidedly faux about the camaraderie of Facebook, something illusory about the connectedness of Twitter.