At NBC I wasn't really sure if the grandparents were going to get my sense of humor on a particular topic.

If the breaking news story had to do with hard news, politics specifically, I had a lot to do with it. If it had to do with music, Kurt Loder was more involved.

Online, you have things like Slate Magazine, which has a lot of commentary and analysis of stories, so it gives you a fuller picture. I would compare that to a news magazine or the New Republic.

At NBC I wasn't really sure if the grandparents were going to get my sense of humor on a particular topic.

In the New York Times, you're going to get completely different information than you would in the USA Today.

When I was a freelancer, I thought this journalism thing was a racket, and now that I'm where I am now, I know it's a racket.

At MTV, it's very nice sometimes to be able to be very specific. Specificity really makes a news story interesting because you can color it in that personality.