Today, ordinary Americans are being stuffed with garbage.

The greatest felony in the news business today is to be behind, or to miss a big story. So speed and quantity substitute for thoroughness and quality, for accuracy and context.

Public policy in the twentieth century was about protecting and expanding the social compact, based on recognition that effective government at the federal level provides rules and services and safety measures that contribute to a better society.

The lowest form of popular culture - lack of information, misinformation, disinformation, and a contempt for the truth or the reality of most people's lives - has overrun real journalism.

Good journalism should challenge people, not just mindlessly amuse them.

Even at the end of a presidential election campaign, we have no way to know what Mitt Romney really believes.

There had always been black people in and out of our house, and from the outset I had been taught that for them life was defined by struggle and filled with injustice.