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 spent time in, like, criminal courts, and covering murder trials for papers.

Television's not going read stories to you.

And you can't really cover people critically that you're friends with.

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

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.

I came over here and worked for rock magazines, and I worked for Rolling Stone, which has a very high standard of journalism, a very good research department.