Did I say that the President's entire job is image management? Of course not.

One of the things that Africa needs, everybody seems to agree, is some measure of debt relief.

Don't count out other amazing programming like Frontline. You will still find more hours of in-depth news programming, investigative journalism and analysis on PBS than on any other outlet.

In the media universe we're in, where there are people screaming on one end, there is no problem at all with having a little bit of extra politeness.

Folks who are getting their strokes in the South are not as unhappy with Howard Dean. You don't see anybody starting any movement to get him out of office.

Because I would never work for a niche publication or a niche program on television and because I am a journalist and not an opinion person, my job is to try to see how many different points of view I can represent or how. It's not even a question of who you don't offend because you are always going to offend somebody. The question is how can you get people to listen to the information you have to present.

We used to say in the black community that if somebody else caught a cold, we caught pneumonia.