Occupation: Journalist Birth: February 25, 1937
The government's view is that the best time to announce bad news, news that it doesn't want the public to dwell on is late on a Friday, when it will ….
American politics used to be an amateur sport. But somewhere along the way, we handed over to professionals all the things people used to do for free..
And after about two years, I realized that creative writing was not going to help you ace those biological tests. So I switched over to journalism. I….
But here's the deal: If I were smart, I could figure out curling. If I were even smarter, I could figure out why people would actually watch other pe….
Nowadays I'm not even sure if newspapers take into account whether a person is a good writer..
My bladder cancer was related to smoking, and I think smoking kills people..
I had - all my life, everybody who knew me thought that I would probably grow up to be a reporter, a newspaper reporter because we didn't have much t….
I guess the worst snow was the Kennedy inauguration in 1960. Heavy snow..
One thing young people have to always keep in mind when deciding what they want to do with their lives is, is it fun? Is it something that I'm intere….
I think journalism is a great way to do public service, to have an impact on your community..
It's no longer just reporting the headlines of the day, but trying to put the headlines into some context and to add some perspective into what they ….
They've asked me to do this temporarily. I don't know what temporarily means. Life is temporary..
The truth is the Super Bowl long ago became more than just a football game..
Mitt Romney is betting big on himself and left no doubt about it..
There's fierce competition between all the networks to get the guest who can bring the most pertinent information about whatever the story of the mom….
Whether or not the President is sleeping well won't be a factor in his re-election. That will depend on what he does while he is awake..
Once we get them in the studio, you interview a person the same way you would interview another. You ask them a question. You let them answer. You tr….
And as a result, I guess I'm just kind of a rubberneck. I'm kind of a - someone who likes to see things and likes to see these events and talk to the….
I used to be a print reporter..