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.

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.

My dad was an engineer, and he became the CEO of Chevron. His was an engineer's mind-set: Everything's kind of a problem how do you approach the problem?

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

I'm convinced that the most important division in human affairs is probably not the one between left and right, liberal and conservative. It's the one between zealotry and understanding, between absolute conviction and compromise, between preachers and politicians.

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

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