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.

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.

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.

Ninety-nine-point-nine percent of the media is left of center. There are two companies doing truly balanced news today: Sinclair and Fox.