Stanford University is so startlingly paradisial, so fragrant and sunny, it's as if you could eat from the trees and live happily forever.

Without vision, even the most focused passion is a battery without a device.

The entertainment industry as a whole has given more thought to the pollution of rivers than it has to the pollution of minds.

Objective is the wrong word. Rather, it's fairness. Objectivity is a false God. Instead we should strive for fairness and transparency.

Perhaps the biggest problem in journalism is the cult divide between journalists and corporate owners.

There are those who believe a liberal or a conservative bias permeates the media. I don't. The operative press bias is one that favors conflict, not ideology, and it is lashed by a market-driven bias to boost ratings or circulation with more wow stories, more sizzle.

The digital revolution is almost as disruptive to the traditional media business as electricity was to the candle business.