TV ads are great for broadcasting, but voter turnout is about narrow-casting. And not all messengers are created equal.

As every newspaper reader, liberal activist, or parliamentary junkie knows, the overarching barrier to most of Obama's agenda is the abuse of the filibuster in the Senate. In fact, several of Obama's second term priorities are not ideas in search of a majority - they are majorities in search of an up-or-down vote.

But I know newspapers. They have the first amendment and they can tell any lie knowing it's a lie and they're protected if the person's famous or it's a company.

The good news is that real-world hands-on conservation is alive and well and catching on across the America I travel.

I remember when I first started being in magazines, I had pretty thin skin. I was this nerd that read books and stayed home and didn't go out.

Indeed, is not the homecoming amateur with his vast number of artistic snaps more contented than the hunter, returning laden with the game which is only of value to the trader.

"One of the first rules of playing the power game is that all bad news must be accepted calmly, as if one already knew and didn't care."

"I very much wanted to be accepted by my peers, to be considered a serious journalist."

"Men still control the news, both on and off camera."

"You know, one wonderful thing that came out of my Enquirer experience is that, in my case, it was ruled tabloids are magazines. Which means they didn't have the protection that a newspaper has."

"I had always been quiet and studious in school. I was the high school editor of the newspaper."

"When I was a little girl in the 1950s, it would not have been possible for me to say, I want to be an anchorwoman when I grow up."

"When I first anchored in 1970, I had never seen a woman anchor a news show."

“Nothing travels faster than the speed of light, with the possible exception of bad news, which obeys its own special laws.” 

“Altogether, if I'd been looking at nothing but the media all these years, I would be a much more discouraged person-especially given the notion that only conflict is news, and that objectivity means being evenhandedly negative.” 

“For fear of the newspapers politicians are dull, and at last they are too dull even for the newspapers.” 

“If you attempt an actual argument with a modern paper of opposite politics, you will have no answer except slanging or silence.” 

“Men are ruled, at this minute by the clock, by liars who refuse them news, and by fools who cannot govern.”

Your first impulse is to share good news, your second is to club someone with it

Given how few young people actually read the newspaper, it's a good thing they'll be reading a newspaper on a screen.

Headlines, in a way, are what mislead you because bad news is a headline, and gradual improvement is not.

Eventually you won't think of 'the Internet business.' You'll think of it more like news, weather, sports, but even that taxonomy isn't clear.