If you ask questions that interest you, you'll get answers that interest your audience..

So you shouldn't really flatter yourself that they want to be your buddy. They don't. Generally. They want you for some reason or other, and you just….

Some of the most important stories don't lend themselves to television treatment..

Television's not going read stories to you..

So, yeah, I think it had a major effect. I think in franchising younger people, it was just an idea that's never been trotted out before, but it make….

I don't find music being less important than, like, politics..

If your audience is young, it'd be youth culture, if your audience is older, it'd be older people, if it were senior citizens, it'd be senior citizen….

I came over here and worked for rock magazines, and I worked for Rolling Stone, which has a very high standard of journalism, a very good research de….

Well, in features, and in writing especially, it's often the style of the writer comes in..

It's gonna be short if it's news; put it at the top. Style's not an issue, just make it news..

You find the most important thing that really grabs you, and put it right up top. Don't bury the lead. Put it at the top. Best thing to do. Never go ….

I worked for a newspaper in Europe for, I lived in Europe for about seven years, so I worked in this sort of a yellow journalism kind of a thing, it ….

I spent time in, like, criminal courts, and covering murder trials for papers..

Television's very dependent on images. That's not what news is..

Unless you're doing a feature piece, which is going to be longer, and you have more time to get into stuff..

And you can't really cover people critically that you're friends with..

I know what the structure of the language is..

So no one should rely on television either for their knowledge of music or for news. There's just more going on. It's an adjunct to the written word,….

I was in college for two years, and just hated it in the '60s..

It's not a good thing to be friends with people you're covering. There's just no point in doing it. It's tempting, but they're not going to consider ….

And the most important thing you can do is learn to edit yourself. And then go back and rewrite..