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

Sure, I've often been misrepresented - anyone frequently quoted has this experience.

The mobilisation which Bush has been able to perform since 11 September 2001 has to be fought - at least by Americans - in the name of a wise, honourable and democratic patriotism.

Human inertia makes the everyday environment, the furniture, as it were, appear to be a given.

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.

Americas are, for a variety of reasons, the most adept at producing the kind of entertainment that delivers easy satisfactions.

To win power anywhere you have to convince people that you can do something for them.