The corruption in reporting starts very early. It's like the police reporting on the police.

You can't do anything sensible until you know what the situation is that you're in.

Knowledge has always flowed upwards to bishops and kings, not down to serfs and slaves.

If journalism is good, it is controversial, by its nature.

I want to set up a new standard: ‘scientific journalism.’ If you publish a paper on DNA, you are required, by all the good biological journals, to submit the data that has informed your research—the idea being that people will replicate it, check it, verify it. So this is something that needs to be done for journalism as well. There is an immediate power imbalance, in that readers are unable to verify what they are being told, and that leads to abuse.

The sense of perspective that interaction with multiple cultures gives you I find to be extremely valuable, because it allows you to see the structure of a country with greater clarity, and gives you a sense of mental independence.

There is unity in the oppression. There must be absolute unity and determination, in the response.