I'm surprised and disappointed in American culture.

You have a specific, defined audience-at MTV, they assume the audience to the news is 15 to 30 years old and they do a lot of research about the things they're interested in.

Knowing policy does help make the gossip more understandable.

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

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.

If the breaking news event has something to do with young people, specifically with MTV's audience, there was a higher chance that I would actually go cover it with a television camera instead of just write the story myself and read it on the air.

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