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I know people don't like America very much, but the one thing it's very good on is local government.
- Heather Brooke
#America
#Good
#Government
#Know
#People
When journalism is treated as just another widget in a commercial enterprise, the focus isn't on truth, verification or public good, but productivity and output.
- Heather Brooke
#Focus
#Good
#Journalism
#Just
#Truth
I pine for a return to the type of old-school journalism and the tough newspapermen and women of the Thirties.
- Heather Brooke
#Journalism
#Pine
#Return
#Tough
#Women
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 I just found myself back in journalism again.
- Heather Brooke
#Journalism
#Mom
#Myself
#Serendipity
#Up
Politicians often claim secrecy is necessary for good governance or national security.
- Heather Brooke
#Claim
#Good Governance
#Good
#Security
What the interconnected age in which we live allows us to do is instantly connect with each other.
- Heather Brooke
#Age
#Connect
#Interconnected
#Live
#Us
CCTV is seen either as a symbol of Orwellian dystopia or a technology that will lead to crime-free streets and civil behaviour. While arguments continue, there is very little solid data in the public domain about the costs, quantity and effectiveness of surveillance.
- Heather Brooke
#Continue
#Data
#Dystopia
#Technology
The royal family are protected from public accountability by law.
- Heather Brooke
#Accountability
#Family
#Law
#Royal
I never thought I would get married. I didn't think I was that type of person.
- Heather Brooke
#Never
#Person
#Think
#Thought
#Would
Diplomacy has always involved dinners with ruling elites, backroom deals and clandestine meetings. Now, in the digital age, the reports of all those parties and patrician chats can be collected in one enormous database. And once collected in digital form, it becomes very easy for them to be shared.
- Heather Brooke
#Age
#Digital
#Diplomacy
#Easy
#Meetings
Public relations is at best promotion or manipulation, at worst evasion and outright deception. What it is never about is a free flow of information.
- Heather Brooke
#Best
#Deception
#Flow
#Free
#Information
The hacker community may be small, but it possesses the skills that are driving the global economies of the future.
- Heather Brooke
#Community
#Future
#Hacker
#Skills
#Small
Our printing press is the Internet. Our coffee houses are social networks.
- Heather Brooke
#Coffee
#Internet
#Our
#Printing
#Social
Leaks are not the problem; they are the symptom. They reveal a disconnect between what people want and need to know and what they actually do know. The greater the secrecy, the more likely a leak.
- Heather Brooke
#Know
#More
#Need
#People
#Want
The monarchy is a part of the state. It exists to serve the people.
- Heather Brooke
#Monarchy
#Part
#People
#Serve
#State
Hackers often describe what they do as playfully creative problem solving.
- Heather Brooke
#Creative
#Hackers
#Often
#Problem
When you're a crime reporter, you see the nub of what life's about, and you don't have much patience for the falsity of politics.
- Heather Brooke
#Life
#Patience
#Politics
#Reporter
#See
Britain's legal structure is basically the same as in feudal times: laws are written for the elite.
- Heather Brooke
#Elite
#Laws
#Legal
#Same
#Structure
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