Our free enterprise system of disseminating information is collectively referred to as The Media. But there is no collective.

News reporting is a cycle: No matter how much you work at sending a message, it's only successful if it's received.

In interviews I gave early on in my career, I was quoted as saying it was possible to have it all: a dynamic job, marriage, and children. In some respects, I was a social adolescent.

I worked half my life to be an overnight success, and still it took me by surprise.

When I first anchored in 1970, I had never seen a woman anchor a news show.

The minute viewers callin or write about your looks, they were not listening to what you were saying.

I hadn't realized until I covered the police beat just how seedy crime is.