There's something totally crazy about this.

Today, ordinary Americans are being stuffed with garbage.

I think all good reporting is the same thing - the best attainable version of the truth.

For the first time, the weird and the stupid and the coarse are becoming our cultural norms, even our cultural ideal.

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

Increasingly, the picture of our society as rendered in our media is illusionary and delusionary: disfigured, unreal, out of touch with reality, disconnected from the true context of our life. It is disfigured by celebrity, by celebrity worship, by gossip, by sensationalism, by denial of our societies

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.