Journalists always like an excuse for why are they talking about something now when they didn’t talk about something a week ago. They always like to say something is new.
I’m not a big fan of regulation: anyone who likes freedom of the press can’t be.
I coauthored my first nonfiction book by the time I was 25. I have been involved in nonfiction documentaries, newspapers, TV and internet since that time.
When Enron collapsed, through court processes, thousands and thousands of emails came out that were internal, and it provided a window into how the whole company was managed. It was all the little decisions that supported the flagrant violations.
We have to be careful about applying criminal labels to people until we’re very sure.
My family has had to move and change their name and have been subject to threats from right wing blogs calling for my son, for example, to be killed to get at me.
Through the confessional system, the Catholic church spied upon the lives of its congregants. While Latin mass excluded most people who could not speak Latin from an understanding of the very system of thought that bound them.
Journalism should be more like science. As far as possible, facts should be verifiable. If journalists want long-term credibility for their profession, they have to go in that direction. Have more respect for readers.
I would be happy to accept asylum, political asylum, in India a nation I love. In return, I will bring Mayawati a range of the finest British footwear.
As a European Union member state, as a country committed throughout all its history to the fight for the values that I have made my own, as the fifth world power, as a country that has marked my life and European Union houses part of European Union, France can act if it wishes to do so.
What does censorship reveal? It reveals fear.
So when Putin goes out to buy a Coke, thirty seconds later it is known in Washington DC.
One of the best ways to achieve justice is to expose injustice.
Reality is an aspect of property. It must be seized. And investigative journalism is the noble art of seizing reality back from the powerful.
Nothing. There’s nothing you can do. As soon as you do something you’ll no-longer be average.
Cryptography is the ultimate form of non-violent direct action.
It is the media that controls the boundaries of what is politically permissible, so better to change the media. Profit motives work against it, but if we can have the audience understand that most other forms of journalism are not credible, then it may be a forced move.
Seeing ongoing political reforms that have a real impact on people all over the world is extremely satisfying. But we want every person who’s having a dispute with their kindergarten to feel confident about sending us material.
Power is a thing of perception. They don’t need to be able to kill you. They just need you to think they are able to kill you.
This movement is not about the destruction of law, but the construction of law.