As Americans, we rightfully place tremendous value on having a free and independent press. Our role as journalists is to give voice to the voiceless, and hold our leaders and institutions accountable. But the circle is only completed when that information is consumed by a free-thinking and engaged audience.
I've got volumes on how not to behave. I've got more information now than a guy should have at my age.
To be sure, if you watch CNBC all day long you'll pick up some interesting news about particular companies and the economy as a whole. Unfortunately, to get to the useful information, you have to wade through reams of useless stuff, with little guidance on how to distinguish between the two.
After reading and studying and getting in touch with the amount of information that I had while I was researching to play Pablo, it just reinforced the idea that I had that the war on drugs is a big flop.
Trade isn't about goods. Trade is about information. Goods sit in the warehouse until information moves them.
Web sites are designed to keep young people from using the keyboard, except to enter in their parents' credit card information.
There is a real hunger for information about Obama and a sense that information is not being covered or, in some cases, even being withheld. There is a sense that there are elements of the media that are protective of Obama, that they would rather block a story that is embarassing about Obama than let the American public decide.
My goal was never to withhold information; my goal was to make sure everything was accurate, and frequently it wasn't.
A lot of the best suspense operates on a careful withholding of information as opposed to the doling out of information.
We are witnessing a seismic change in consumer behavior. That change is being brought about by technology and the access people have to information.
You don't teach information in a writing workshop.
The reason is that till date, in spite of advances in information technology and strategies of information, the written word in the form of books still remains one of humanity's most enduring legacies.