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.

It's not a good thing to be friends with people you're covering. There's just no point in doing it. It's tempting, but they're not going to consider you their friend anyway. They just know that you're somebody that can do something for them.

Whomever you're going to interview, you have to be interested in what it is you want to know from them. You have to be interested in the subject.

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

Television's very dependent on images. That's not what news is.

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

So you shouldn't really flatter yourself that they want to be your buddy. They don't. Generally. They want you for some reason or other, and you just have to fend that off all the time.