I've lived long enough to see the triumph of zealots and absolutists, to watch money swallow politics, to witness the rise of the corporate state. See the party of working and poor people become a sycophant of crony capitalism. Watch the union of church and state become fashionable again. Witness the coupling of news and entertainment. See everyday people cast overboard as the pirates and predators of Wall Street seized the ship of state. I didn't drift; I moved left just by standing still.

...there is no more effective public interest watchdog in Washington, D.C.

I was not a public - I was not a thinker. I was a doer.

Television is a medium. It is neither rare nor well done.

The rich today are richer, there are more of them, they have round-the-clock propaganda factories in Rupert Murdoch's empire and rightwing talk radio, and corporate media have their back.

Our media and political system has turned into a mutual protection racket.

Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.