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.

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.

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

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.

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

Rewriting is a large part of the whole job. And get rid of stuff that's not working. Just pare it down until it's a beautiful thing you can hand in.

Television's not going read stories to you.