Some versions of patriotism come close to the tribal, which we all want to surpass, and some don’t.

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.

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.

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

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

Collectively, we are in thrall to media - because they deliver to us many of the psychic goods we crave, and we know no other way to live.

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