Most people I've talked to are convinced that they're not getting valuable information from news media anymore. I'm not talking about tinfoil-hatters either, these are intelligent people who believe their news media has failed them.

Most people treat the news media like the exercise bike they have in their basement. They're glad it's there but they never use it.

I'm actually very collaborative if people are intelligent and they're not talking about stupid things - then I get crazy.

abused by the typhoon of the news media.

We have currently a built-in allergy to unpleasant or disturbing information. Our mass media reflect this. But unless we get up off our fat surpluses and recognize that television in the main is being used to distract, delude, amuse, and insulate us, then television and those who finance it, those who look at it, and those who work at it, may see a totally different picture too late.

Our major obligation is not to mistake slogans for solutions.