A dog has one aim in life. . . to bestow his heart.
Most journalists now believe that a person's privacy zone gets smaller and smaller as the person becomes more and more powerful.
No matter what name we give it or how we judge it, a candidate's character is central to political reporting because it is central to a citizen's decision in voting.
Given what the media have put the country through this past decade, it must come as a surprise to most Americans that the press has a code of ethics.
Journalists, who are skeptical to begin with, simply do not like to be lied to or made fools of.
The relationship between press and politician - protected by the Constitution and designed to be happily adversarial - becomes sour, raw and confrontational.
The ethics of editorial judgement, however, began to go though a sea change during the late 1970s and 80s when the Carter and Reagan Administrations de-regulated the television industry.
Strats are my favorite electric guitars, and I've got quite a collection.
A shop-keeper in good business is quite as well off as a pedlar that travels the country with his wares on his back. Commercial jealousy is, after all, nothing but prejudice: it is a wild fruit, that will drop of itself when it has arrived at maturity.
I sometimes wonder if our memories are a myth. We think we remember, but we are remembering the story and not the actual event?
You cannot make thousands of universities or hundreds of thousands of professors, but with technology and the Internet you can have great courses and make a digital university.