The mainstream medium is a reflection of the broadest segment of society, the broadest segment of attitudes. It takes a lot of work to overcome those attitudes. There is a wonderful tradition in American journalism to expose a wrong, expose corruption, that our role is to study power and hold it accountable. And that's one of the most honorable things about the profession. At the same time, the papers are run by upper middle class folk, its more and more a professionalized craft.
People have to have a master's degree to get in the door.
That tends to breed in my view, more middle class and more moderated world view. That's just the sociological truth. When you're at a newspaper this big, you're sitting on top of this big cannon. A sort of caution tends to prevail and tends to silence the more edgier people. There's a picture of team in 1965 that won a Pulitzer, it's all white men and one black guy.