Caring about policy is important - people in washington forget.

At MTV, although the audience is smaller, I found it more interesting to deliver news to a specific group of people, because my story then did not have to try to be all things to all people.

Knowing policy does help make the gossip more understandable.

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.

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.

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.