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?

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.

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

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

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.

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.