I love to run smart essays and commentary. But it doesn't replace the other kind of reporting

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

I'm trying to be entertaining without being mean

Powerful women always interpret hostility as unrequited love.

What's interesting about the Taliban, is they're more afraid of educating girls than they are of drones. One educated girl is more scary to the Taliban than a drone.

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.