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My feelings towards the newspapers are very affectionate.

Some newspapers have a hands-off policy on favored politicians. But it's generally very small newspapers or local TV stations.

It is a curious foible of a certain type of mind that it is unable to imagine a newspaper editor as one who may, on some public questions, honestly have the same view as that held by other persons.

There isn't as much passion and outrage in today's newspapers. That may be because of a corporate decision, but they've lost their personality.

People, even independently minded people, do to an extent draw their impressions from what they are told, especially if they are told it incessantly by newspapers.

I do think the biggest problem newspapers have is loss of trust, and I feel that's a result of failure to speak truth to power.

We have got to make sure there is proper independent scrutiny and accountability for people in the press, just as there should be in any other industry where things go wrong. But let's not try and think it is for politicians or governments to tell people what they stick in newspapers. That is deeply illiberal.

We all have our likes and our dislikes. But... when we're doing news - when we're doing the front-page news, not the back page, not the op-ed pages, but when we're doing the daily news, covering politics - it is our duty to be sure that we do not permit our prejudices to show. That is simply basic journalism.

God, newspapers have been making up stories forever. This kind of trifling and fooling around is not a function of the New Journalism.

I think the press has an interest in communicating to its viewers or readers, and their viewers or readers drive profit for those news organizations, so I think those news organizations have a certain bias toward their own readers. Yeah, I think they are a special interest. Of course they are.