The camera cannot lie, but it can be an accessory to untruth.

When I was studying at Chicago and at Stanford University, where many many cases of two people observing the same event have a different take on what happened.

For 50 years my father worked for the railroad.

Television and radio are what I call sequential media; they're not simultaneous media. With simultaneous media, you can scan your eye down an electronic or print page and pick among six or seven stories you might like and want to read. With television and radio, you have to wait until the guy's finished talking about the balloon boy, which I don't have the slightest interest in, to find out that all hell's broken loose in Baghdad. Because they've chosen that day to start with the balloon boy.

The camera cannot lie, but it can be an accessory to untruth.

Throughout America's young history there has been a necessary tension between the individual and the group.

I love craftsmanship of any kind, a job well done either by my chiropractor or carpenter, and I am addicted to print, the type, the ink. But my basic passion is journalism and I can't live without being online.