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.

We may repeat the awful revolutionary history of the 20th century because of the vulnerability of social movements to demagoguery.

My position is not that John Kerry is either Jesus Christ or the prophet Mohammad. My position is that John Kerry is the possibility of restarting politics.

I am a realist as well as an idealist, and I think that it is incumbent upon those of us in opposition to try to work within what are always arduous circumstances to stretch the limits of the possible.

Who of us does not recognize that the life we live, however larded with brave talk about values and thought and ideals, is not actually a life dedicated to immersion in the endless torrent of images, songs, sounds and stories?

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

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