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.

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

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

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.

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

My bladder cancer was related to smoking, and I think smoking kills people.

One thing young people have to always keep in mind when deciding what they want to do with their lives is, is it fun? Is it something that I'm interested in? Is it something I enjoy?