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.

You find the most important thing that really grabs you, and put it right up top. Don't bury the lead. Put it at the top. Best thing to do. Never go wrong that way. It's an immutable law of journalism. It just always works.

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

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.

Television's not going read stories to you.