It's very easy to say that something is a shadow of itself, and it may be true in some senses.

We Americans are the ultimate innocents. We are forever desperate to believe that this time the government is telling us the truth.

I don't know how you can do it, if you don't recognition the media as a power center in America.

You can criticize any news staff in some ways, but the one thing that you couldn't call the Village Voice staff was a staff of stenographers, taking notes from public figures and just passing them on.

I just don't believe that you have to come in and insult people when you want to change things.

The mainstream press and television do a very soft job of covering the press, either as corporate entities or as news organizations.

My own reaction from a distance is that Pol Pot's demise as the leader of the Khmer Rouge was inevitable, and that his own paranoia did him in as much as anything else.