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.

Some of the most important stories don't lend themselves to television treatment.

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

It's gonna be short if it's news; put it at the top. Style's not an issue, just make it news.

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.