Television's not going read stories to you..

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..

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..

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 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….

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

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 ….

And so popular culture raises issues that are very important, actually, in the country I think. You get issues of the First Amendment rights and issu….

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

I know what the structure of the language is..

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

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

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 think television often has dismissed younger people. They figure, well, they're not really watching news, that's not our audience..

Well, news is anything that's interesting, that relates to what's happening in the world, what's happening in areas of the culture that would be of i….

But music raises a lot of issues. Music is something that matters to people a lot, and they put a lot of passion into it. And I think when you have a….

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

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 ….

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