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I, perhaps wrongly, assume that people actually read articles that interest them rather than just headlines.

Public discourse has been polluted now for decades by corporate-funded disinformation - not just with climate change but with a host of health, environmental and societal threats. The implications for the planet are grim.

I think people are smart enough to sort it out. They know when they're watching one of these food fight shows where journalists sit around and yell and scream at each other, versus serious issue reporting.

Journalism is straying into entertainment. The lines between serious news segments, news entertainment, and news comedy are blurring.

The U.S. news media have a critical role to play in educating the public about climate change.

I think what human beings need is to be able to laugh at the absurd, hold on to ambiguity, and learn to love nuance, instead of making everything one or the other, and structurally, so much of the Internet and online publishing doesn't have room for any of that.

The thing that bothers me about journalism is the false equivalency we sometimes place on certain issues.

Since I'm not a journalist, I talk about issues that encourage an interchange of ideas through conversation while also being entertaining.

I like to blur the line between fact and fiction, but not to condescend to the reader by enmeshing her/him into some sort of a postmodern coop.

The media thinks that you have to make science sexy and concentrate on themes such as rivalry and the human issues.