I just wanted to have fun for myself - I felt I had a lot to say, and I realized that I missed having a magazine as a place to express my ideas. The Times column is a place for me to unload those perceptions

In the end, Dan Rather's legend skewered him, CBS and the craft of journalism.

In TV, you always feel you are standing on the tracks of an oncoming train

Admitting weakness seems to be such a severe psychic threat for Bush that when he makes a mistake it's safer just to reinforce it. The strategy creates a perverse system of rewards and punishments

Manners are the ability to put someone else at their ease...by turning any answer into another question.

I think for a young journalist, it's better to write for the Web at the moment than it is for print

TV journalism is a much more collaborative, horizontal business than print reporting. It has to be, because of the logistics. Anchors are wholly dependent on producers to do all the hustling