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The things journalists should pay attention to are the issues the political leadership agrees on, rather than to their supposed antagonisms.

A journalist enjoys a privileged position. In exchange for not being able to participate in the rough-and-tumble issues of a community, we are given license to observe it all, based on the understanding that we'll tell everyone what happens fairly and squarely. That's harder than it sounds.

There is nothing more American than peaceful protest.

The great concern is that year after year, rising numbers of journalists are being killed in pursuit of their work. They are increasingly seen as not being neutral but rather as combatants by one side or the other.

U.S. journalists I don't think are very courageous. They tend to go along with the government's policy domestically and internationally. To question is seen as being unpatriotic, or potentially subversive.

If journalism is good, it is controversial, by its nature.

I think a newspaper should be provocative, stir 'em up, but you can't do that on television. It's just not on.

It's amazing that the amount of news that happens in the world every day always just exactly fits the newspaper.

We want people to have the right to express their concerns and frustration and protest in a peaceful manner.

Protesters should make their own media and not rely on mainstream media to cover them.