Jesse Marcel's unproven story was now primetime mythology. This remote New Mexico town had hit the jackpot. It didn't matter that there wasn't a shred of credible evidence to support the claim that a flying saucer crashed here. It didn't matter that there were no credible witnesses to alien bodies.

I think it's impossible for any of us not to find television, and the political process at its best on television, compelling.

I am sensitive to the value of faith and religion and spirituality in people's lives because I'm a journalist.

I think I came to see Islam, or at least one part of Islam, as an important defense mechanism against the commercialization of the world.

I'm a little concerned about this notion everybody wants us to be objective.

Have a sense of humor about life - you will need it. And be courteous.

I'm not a slave to objectivity. I'm never quite sure what it means. And it means different things to different people.