With all the mass media concentrated in a few hands, the ancient faith in the competition of ideas in the free market seems like a hollow echo of a much simpler day.

The newspaper fits the reader's program while the listener must fit the broadcaster's program.

If I take refuge in ambiguity, I assure you that it's quite conscious.

We all live in a televised goldfish bowl.

There is no lasting hope in violence, only temporary relief from hopelessness.

There is no greater challenge than to have someone relying upon you; no greater satisfaction than to vindicate his expectation.

It won't make for a quiet life but it will make for an interesting paper vastly more significant because it is doing something only a daily paper can do.