Jonathan Alter Quotes
It sometimes takes a while for executives to figure out that the reporters they think of as little bugs to be squashed or spun can be more powerful than they are.
The key to fixing education is better teaching, and the key to better teaching is figuring out who can teach and who can't.
With his ABC News experience, perhaps Pierre Salinger's next job could be cohosting-with Oliver Stone-a 24-hour Conspiracy Network.
The only thing worse than a silly politician analyzing art is a silly artist analyzing politics
The basic problem is with the business model of journalism. That business model is premised on the idea that talk is cheap and reporting is expensive.
I think it's a terrible system, but money in politics is like water running downhill -- it finds its way.
The only reason the House hasn't done even more damage is that the Senate often sands down the most noxious ideas, making the bills merely bad, not disastrous.
If it's easy for the government to learn about us, it should be easier for us to learn about the government.
Unless the digital divide is narrowed soon, the United States may be headed to the class warfare of a century ago, the last time the economy changed so fundamentally. It won't be pleasant.
