I think people are smart enough to sort it out. They know when they're watching one of these food fight shows where journalists sit around and yell and scream at each other, versus serious issue reporting.

There's hostility to lying, and there should be.

Reporters may believe they control the story, but the story always controls the reporters.

Newspapers that are truly independent, like The Washington Post, can still aggressively investigate anyone or anything with no holds barred.

They need to review this secret world. We have an incredibly powerful government that gets on automatic pilot.

Certain political figures think when you call them and ask them for a comment; that you are somehow doing something that you shouldn't be doing.

The cloud of doubt that surrounds political figures tends to remain and never dissipate or be clarified.