That's the problem with news interviews, you work your tail off to get prominent figures in the news on the radio, but once they've been on, the event passes, the urgency, the issues you talked about evaporate.

The difference between a friend and an acquaintance is that a friend helps; an acquaintance merely advises.

But when you see personal artifacts relating to - by genealogy at least - a living human being, it was just more impressive to me than just about anything I've ever read about slavery before.

It's also a more personal medium. It seems to go directly to one's brain. There are no pictures to distract.

I've never been able to predict the future of anything.

In college, I got interested in news because the world was coming apart. The civil rights movement, the antiwar movement, the women's right movement. That focused my radio ambitions toward news.

With radio, the listener absorbs everything.