I Think A Lot Of

When I First Came To The United States In 1956 I Fell In Love With Things - Mainly The Vitality And The Freedoms.

We Always Talk About How Everyone Is Unifocal. You Can't Possibly Be Interested In Jazz And Beethoven. Of Course You Can. You Can't Both Be Reading A Newspaper And Be Online. Of Course You Can. We Shouldn't Be Obsessed With A Gun To Your Head, 'you Either Read A Newspaper Or Die!'

When I Was Studying At Chicago And At Stanford University, Where Many Many Cases Of Two People Observing The Same Event Have A Different Take On What Happened.

I Think A Lot Of Newspapers Have Lost Touch With That Sense Of Community, Which So Impressed Me As A Teenager When I Had To Knock On People's Doors.

I Think There's A Lot Of Benefit In Letting People Vent. When I Was On The Manchester Evening News, We Got 500 Letters A Day, And Part Of My Job As Editor Was To Edit Them. And I Thought That Was One Of The Best Things In The Newspaper, And It Was Instituted By An Editor Known As Big Tom, Who Said 'this Is The Voice Of The People.' And He Was Quite Right.