It's no longer just reporting the headlines of the day, but trying to put the headlines into some context and to add some perspective into what they mean.

But with 9/11, we found that people tended to come back to the networks and the people who had been our core viewers in the past came back and they have stayed with us.

Talk about threats to national security -- how about government so big, so complicated and so unmanageable, it cant get out of its own way?

They've asked me to do this temporarily. I don't know what temporarily means. Life is temporary.

When Sam Snead was asked how to putt, he said, 'Putt for one hundred dollars'.

But here's the deal: If I were smart, I could figure out curling. If I were even smarter, I could figure out why people would actually watch other people doing it. I have tried. I can't. I can't even figure out the object of the game. Is it like darts? I just don't get it.

A great deal of our ratings on the morning news are people who died during the night with their TV on.