Sincerity: if you can fake it, you've got it made.

Power corrupts, and there is nothing more corrupting than power exercised in secret.

Murrow covered something because it needed coverage. He wasn't trying to get an audience just for the sake of it.

Good journalism is being criminalized or otherwise rendered perilous to its best practitioners. Attack a government agency like the CIA, or a Fortune 500 member ..., or the conduct of the military in Southeast Asia and you find yourself in deep trouble, naked and often alone.

Sincerity: if you can fake it, you've got it made.

All news is an exaggeration of life.

I have no doubt that the nation has suffered more from undue secrecy than from undue disclosure. The government takes good care of itself.