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.

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.

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

I always thought writing was the foundation and the basis for journalism in the same way being able to draw is the foundation for art.

There's fierce competition between all the networks to get the guest who can bring the most pertinent information about whatever the story of the moment happens to be.

The government's view is that the best time to announce bad news, news that it doesn't want the public to dwell on is late on a Friday, when it will wind up in the Saturday papers, which if you were readers, then the week day editions. A holiday weekend is even better.

American politics used to be an amateur sport. But somewhere along the way, we handed over to professionals all the things people used to do for free.