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In journalism, as in politics, other people's lives are a currency to be bartered on behalf of notoriety and influence.

Journalists are simply leftists disguised as reporters. They're political activists disguised as reporters.

One of the problems that we have as American journalists is that we bring the American cultural baggage with us and we plop it down and it follows us around and that's just a fact of life.

The dilemma for early 21st century journalism is this: Who will pay for the news?

At times, some journalists see nothing in the people apart from an opportunity to make material gain. They see them as consumers to whom we sell commodities at huge profits that keep our bank accounts growing.

We journalists are a bit like vultures, feasting on war, scandal and disaster. Turn on the news, and you see Syrian refugees, Volkswagen corruption, dysfunctional government. Yet that reflects a selection bias in how we report the news: We cover planes that crash, not planes that take off.

Every newspaper editor says the heart of the paper is the reporter - which is true - except for the pay!

You know it's easy here to buy journalists.

I can only speak as an American, but most journalism here isn't doing its job any more. It's about selling stuff.

The big-time journalists generally had kidnapping insurance through their news organizations. Usually, it would pay for a crisis response company to help negotiate for a hostage's release. Freelancers most often had none.