The media is not just the message. The media is a massage. We're constantly being stroked, manipulated, adjusted, realigned, and manoeuvered.

It would make life much easier if I could have total faith and not question everything all the time, but I can't do it and I won't do it.

What do we believe? Why do we believe it?

Most reporters who come to me get their stories directly from press releases. Very few do what one would consider to be their professional duty.

It is the fool who thinks he cannot be fooled.

I learned more complex ways to manipulate the manipulators, to bring attention to issues about which I felt passionate.

But I learned first-hand how the news media operates by watching how they interpreted, changed, and misrepresented my intentions.