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

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.

And so popular culture raises issues that are very important, actually, in the country I think. You get issues of the First Amendment rights and issues of drug use, issues of AIDS, and things like that all arise naturally out of pop culture.

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.

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

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

If you ask questions that interest you, you'll get answers that interest your audience.