Knowing policy does help make the gossip more understandable.

I'm surprised and disappointed in American culture.

It's nice to know about something as soon as it happens, and obviously a newspaper can't provide that.

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 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.

Gossip is easy, politics is hard.

I worked at NBC and MTV for two years, and it was very interesting to see the comparisons of audiences and the way that I would have to present a story to the two different places.