Washington tends to be full of too many traps. I think reporters there do a lot of attending news briefings and news conferences expecting to get the real news out of those relatively sterile environments. But you've got to deal with the obscure people as well as the names.

There are more facts and more truths told in the first eight minutes of The Daily Show than most political news conferences in Washington.

If fishing is a religion, fly fishing is the high church.

Bob Hope was an entertainment colossus, shrewd and influential well beyond show business. Richard Zoglin's biography captures it all--the public and private Hope.

Continuous coverage of the war in the Persian Gulf will resume in a moment.

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.

The Fall of the House of Zeus is a riveting American saga of ambition, cunning, greed, corruption, high life and low life in the land of Faulkner and Grisham. These are good ol' boys gone bad with flair, private jets, and lots of cash to carry. Curtis Wilkie, a child of the South and a reporter's reporter, is the perfect match for this wild ride.