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

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.

Radical thought has inspired many of the great political and social reform movements in American history, from ending slavery to establishing the minimum wage.

The American Revolution and Declaration of Independence, it has often been argued, were fueled by the most radical of all American political ideas.

All institutions have lapses, even great ones, especially by individual rogue employees - famously in recent years at The Washington Post, The New York Times, and the three original TV networks.

The pressure to compete, the fear somebody else will make the splash first, creates a frenzied environment in which a blizzard of information is presented and serious questions may not be raised.

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