Bias, like beauty, is often in the eye of the beholder. Facts are your firewall against bias.

People do not like to have their favorite myths of idols challenged and as a rule I think that the public does not like bad news.

No text message will ever replace the first kiss.

I like Washington a great deal. I enjoyed living there. But then I've enjoyed living almost everywhere I've ever been. I just find that it's a different menu wherever you go.

When you run in places you visit, you encounter things you'd never see otherwise.

Ratings to me are a little like the Chinese Government. I don't fully understand what makes a rating go. I don't know what makes the American television audience respond to one person and not t another. There very seldom are great differences between many television personalities.

Speaking generally, people who are drawn to journalism are interested in what happens from the ground up less than they are from the top down.