News events are like Texas weather. If you don't like it, wait a minute.

In real life, events seem much less dramatic.

I don't exactly know what it means to be ready. A cake when the oven timer goes off? Am I fully baked, or only half-baked?

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

What is the value of sticking a microphone in a man's face right after he has learned of his wife's death?

The relationship between talent — a term loosely applied to those who work on-air — and management is uneasy, at best.

Never refuse an assignment except when there is a conflict of interest, a potential of danger to you or your family, or you hold a strongly biased attitude about the subject under focus.