You never heard anybody ask 'Elvis who?'

TV critics, who traditionally hate television and make their living writing about it, often didn't like what I did on the air.

I think the feature reporter often walks a very thin line between a truly human story and one that slops over into mushiness or sentimentality.

You can find your way across this country using burger joints the way a navigator uses stars.

Now that I look back on it, having retired from being a reporter, it was kind of romantic. It was a wonderful way to live one's life, just as I imagined it would be when I was 6 or 7.

When I was a little boy I used to borrow my father's hat, and make a press card to stick in the hat band. That was the way reporters were always portrayed in the movies.

Just by luck, I picked good heroes to worship.