When bin Laden bombed the embassies in '98, what TV and print were obsessed with was not terrorism -- but Monica Lewinsky.

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Access journalism has become the ends, not the means.

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We are in the midst of a tremendous global revolution, ... and the consequences are on a scale that are hitherto unprecedented.

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It's not a bunch of green-haired kids with punctures in their faces.

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I think we have a national attention deficit disorder, ... Because we're so itchy. We're changing the channel, the camera is constantly moving, the edits are flying thick and fast.

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People who feel that their ways of life are threatened or feel generally anxious or confused about the way things are going are disposed to look for causes.

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Can't address the big fact that the bulk of life is taking place under the pressure of an onslaught of images.

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