When I first came to the United States in 1956 I fell in love with things - mainly the vitality and the freedoms.

Transmitting information is easier than creating understanding.

When I first came to the United States in 1956 I fell in love with things - mainly the vitality and the freedoms.

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

The 'gatekeepers' became a term of revile. But when you think about the flow of information, I personally value immensely the calibration a news organ, whether it's on the web or in print, brings to the floodwaters of information. I haven't the time to read all the dispatches of the Associated Press, for example. It's fantastic what they put out, it's extremely good, from all over the world. I like when someone acts as a filter.

I think America has a brilliant future.

Some blogs have become the best check on monopoly mainstream journalism, and they provide a surprisingly frequent source of initiative reporting.