One of the most important disciplines in journalism is to challenge your working premises.

I don't think anyone at Fox believes they are producing even-handed, impartial coverage.

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.

Whether or not Twitter makes you stupid, it certainly makes some smart people sound stupid.

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

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 technology, including the printing press, comes at some price.