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.

Some of those stories in local newspapers are just as dull and boring as the stories that I get from on-line services, which are basically sort of straight news.

Caring about policy is important - people in washington forget.

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

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

I'm surprised and disappointed in American culture.

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.