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.

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

I'm surprised and disappointed in American culture.

Caring about policy is important - people in washington forget.

Gossip is easy, politics is hard.

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.

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.