It's not a good thing to be friends with people you're covering. There's just no point in doing it. It's tempting, but they're not going to consider you their friend anyway. They just know that you're somebody that can do something for them.

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.

It's not a good thing to be friends with people you're covering. There's just no point in doing it. It's tempting, but they're not going to consider you their friend anyway. They just know that you're somebody that can do something for them.

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

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.