Caring about policy is important - people in washington forget.

Gossip is easy, politics is hard.

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

It's not like I just have to go to Washington and go to the White House everyday, and go to the same press conference at 10 in the morning and then be briefed at 4 in the afternoon, and then get a story on at 6.

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.

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

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.