I know what the structure of the language is.

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.

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 the most important thing you can do is learn to edit yourself. And then go back and rewrite.

Television's not going read stories to you.

Unless you're doing a feature piece, which is going to be longer, and you have more time to get into stuff.

Well, in features, and in writing especially, it's often the style of the writer comes in.