My view of social media is that it is a set of tools, not a religion.

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.

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.

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.

I don't have dating tips.

Liberation movements - operating surreptitiously and conspiratorially - thrive on discipline and suspicion, and punish deviation or dissent.

I'm a Capricorn, actually.