You would be amazed what the ordinary guy knows.
There's a danger of the Internet just becoming loud, ugly and boring with a thousand voices screaming for attention.
I didn't go to the right schools, didn't come from a well-known family, nor was I even remotely connected to a powerful publishing dynasty.
If the first lady is concerned about this Internet cycle, what would she have done during the heyday when there was 12, 13 editions of a paper in one day? What would she have done with that news cycle?
Television saved the movies. The Internet is going to save the news business.
I was first to break the news about the death of Lady Diana. The CNN team couldn't get into makeup fast enough.
I follow my conscience - and this is upsetting to some people, but I maintain the conscience is going to be the only thing between us and communication in the future.
I cover media people the way they cover politicians.
The media is comparable to government-probably passes government in raw power.
With a modem, anyone can follow the world and report on the world-no middle man, no big brother. I guess this changes everything.
We have entered an era vibrating with the din of small voices. Every citizen can be a reporter, can take on the powers that be.
I've written thousands of stories, started hundreds of news cycles.
A lot of the stories are internal. They leak it to me wanting to get attention, wanting to get that headline. More times than not, I will not give it to them.
The Internet feeds off the main press, and the main press feeds off the Internet. They're working in tandem.
All truths begin as hearsay, as far as I'm concerned.
I don't necessarily think anything on a Web site can have a result.
Some of the best news stories start in gossip. Monica Lewinsky certainly was gossip in the beginning. I had heard it months before I printed it.
I do most of my business on that dirty Internet that you were just talking about, where I find there is a lot of freedom to report exactly what I want.
It seems to me we are losing our way in an effort to get the ratings.
I'm not mean.
