Heather Brooke Quotes

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• If any of us were faced with a huge bag of free money and very little accountability, it would be human nature that you would…
• What the interconnected age in which we live allows us to do is instantly connect with each other.
• What the Internet has done is it has decentralised power.
• The biggest abuses in society happen when people are not able to communicate and not able to connect.
• The values of WikiLeaks have been completely overshadowed by Julian Assange.
• If you really believe in a cause, let the cause speak for itself. And if you, by your personality, are damaging that cause, if you…
• It is scrutiny by the general public that keeps the powerful honest.
• We are not naughty children, and the state is not our parent.
• I like to write books and cause trouble.
• I pine for a return to the type of old-school journalism and the tough newspapermen and women of the Thirties.
• My parents are British but they emigrated to America, where I was born.
• Parliamentarians certainly know how to do bad public relations.
• Politicians often claim secrecy is necessary for good governance or national security.
• When I was 26 or 27, I gave up journalism. I came to England after my mom died, to let serendipity take its course. And…
• As the news agenda goes into warp speed, it becomes ever more difficult for authors writing about current events to keep their books timely and…
• The speed with which WikiLeaks went from niche interest to global prominence was a real-time example of the revolutionizing power of the digital age in…
• Traditional publishers require an author to submit a manuscript six months in advance, and if pressed, no later than two or three.
• Slightly embarrassing admission: Even when I was a kid, I used to have these little spy books, and I would, like, see what everybody was…
• Our printing press is the Internet. Our coffee houses are social networks.
• I trained as a journalist in America where paying sources is frowned upon. Now I work in the U.K. where there is a more flexible…

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