The papers, you know, they're always gonna just make stuff up. They think it's in the public interest.
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The papers are only going to show what they want the readers to see. It's all propaganda, to be honest.
Often it's the case that we have to do a lot of exploration and marketing of the material we publish ourselves to get a big political impact for it.
I think when you're knee-deep in coming up with editorial plans, the desire to sit down and pencil something is pretty strong.
The public don't know what they want; it's my job to tell them.
I'm sure you have arguments with your friends, but they don't get printed up and magnified in the papers.
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.
I think we'll always have newspapers, but they'll lose influence.
People are not really interested in what politicians talk about, but what they are really interested in is how their hard-earned tax money is spent.
I would like to know that when I read the paper in the morning, it's telling me something that actually happened, and I think the vast majority of journalists want the same thing.
I carefully evaluated every single document I disclosed to ensure that each was legitimately in the public interest. There are all sorts of documents that would have made a big impact that I didn't turn over, because harming people isn't my goal. Transparency is.