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

The Voice has always been an alternative paper. They have always understood that that was part of their role.

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

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

People in New York pay attention to national issues - a huge percentage of people.

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.

Contradictory to my religion, I think, is journalism.