Well, news is anything that's interesting, that relates to what's happening in the world, what's happening in areas of the culture that would be of interest to your audience.

I think television often has dismissed younger people. They figure, well, they're not really watching news, that's not our audience.

If your audience is young, it'd be youth culture, if your audience is older, it'd be older people, if it were senior citizens, it'd be senior citizen issues. So you try and hit the target audience.

I was in college for two years, and just hated it in the '60s.

Well, a lead is the most important thing about the story.

So, yeah, I think it had a major effect. I think in franchising younger people, it was just an idea that's never been trotted out before, but it makes perfectly good sense.

Some of the most important stories don't lend themselves to television treatment.