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

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

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.

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

I do care if religious doctrine becomes an excuse to exclude my fellow citizens from the rights and protections our country promises.

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

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.