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I believe the most important thing for the media is to be objective, fair, and balanced. We should not report a story with preconceptions or prejudice.

I think that everyone is kind of confused about the information they get from the media and rightly so. I'm confused about the information I get from the media.

The bad news for journalists today is that the media, however seriously people who are in the public eye take it, is not taken as seriously as it once was - by the public.

It is not at all clear how much the media influences public opinion and how much public opinion influences the media.

It is precisely the purpose of the public opinion generated by the press to make the public incapable of judging, to insinuate into it the attitude of someone irresponsible, uninformed.

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.

If people in the media cannot decide whether they are in the business of reporting news or manufacturing propaganda, it is all the more important that the public understand that difference, and choose their news sources accordingly.

Most of the press is sent to my publicist so I do see most of what is written about me.

But I learned first-hand how the news media operates by watching how they interpreted, changed, and misrepresented my intentions.