There’s a lot of hand-wringing going on about the death of journalism and particularly the death of investigative journalism. What I see is that there is more need than ever to have experienced information processors – people who can look through this mass of data. Heather Brooke Read Quote
There are corporate private investigators, companies doing very forensic background checks on people. They buy data, they get their own data… They don’t want their industry publicised. Heather Brooke Read Quote
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 Read Quote
I know people don’t like America very much, but the one thing it’s very good on is local government. Heather Brooke Read Quote
There’s not a self-regulating group of nice fair-playing people in politics. There are a lot of dodgy people in politics. Heather Brooke Read Quote
What the interconnected age in which we live allows us to do is instantly connect with each other. Heather Brooke Read Quote
The biggest abuses in society happen when people are not able to communicate and not able to connect. Heather Brooke Read Quote
There is a very intense culture of secrecy in Britain that hasn’t yet been dismantled. What passes for transparency here would serve any secret society well. Heather Brooke Read Quote
People are used to getting a lot of information quickly, and they’re used to being quite empowered as consumers, and they go to governments expecting a similar treatment; they want to find data and they want to influence events quickly, and yet they come into this brick wall. Heather Brooke Read Quote
