Navigation is power of a limited sort - it enables us to manage the immensity of the media torrent.

My business is the analytical framework.

So American culture is itself a hybrid and lends itself to use in other people's hybrids.

Like Americans, people outside America want fun, want an emotional compensation for the utilitarianism and calculation that mark the rest of their lives.

The moguls are driven by their respective desires for profit - period.

Some fine day, Democrats may figure out how to get on the right side of the value divide - how to define America as a place of the common good and not a playground of the strong.

I first came to think about media and politics in the late 1960s, having observed some distortions up close, but since then I wouldn't say that my personal experience has remained an important motive for my writing about media.