MSNBC got some very good people. They've got a good-looking set. All They're first-class. Somewhere along the way, they kind of lost their identity as a news channel, and they started doing a lot of other sort of magazine-type programming.

Insure the uninsured. Effect of Obamacare to date: Uninsure the insured.

Winners take responsibility, losers blame others.

Some in journalism consider themselves apart from and to some extent above the people they purport to serve.

You have to have pace, you have to have high production values, you have to have interesting graphics, and you have to have attractive people - CNN could afford not to be so obedient to those commands, and for a long time, it wasn't.

If the markets had behaved badly, that would obviously add to people's sense of alarm... but there has been a lot of reassurance coming, particularly in the way the Brits handled all this. There seems to be no great fear that something like that is going to happen here.

I think that what people want from cable news channels is the sense that if there's hard news, it's going to come up immediately.