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.

I had - all my life, everybody who knew me thought that I would probably grow up to be a reporter, a newspaper reporter because we didn't have much television in those days.

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.

I guess the worst snow was the Kennedy inauguration in 1960. Heavy snow.

It's getting the right person that's the challenge.

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.

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