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Reporters do decide what is news, but they don't invent it, even if they sometimes become part of the story by risking their lives in a danger zone, as in the case of ABC's Bob Woodruff and Doug Vogt.

News is something that happens that matters to you, which is not most of what we watch on television.

If you look up the definition of news in the dictionary, it isn't what you watch on TV.

There has to be news at a place called Fox News.

Political reporters no longer get to decide what's news. The days when a minister gave briefings to a dozen lobby correspondents, and thereby dictated the next day's headlines, are over. Now, a thousand bloggers decide for themselves what is interesting. If enough of them are tickled then, bingo, you're news.

There is no news media. There's simply a bunch of people on television and in newspapers who are ranking members of the Democrat Party.

Cable news is more titillating to talk about who's up and who's down and all that nonsense as opposed to what's actually done.

I have seen the Gore documentary 'An Inconvenient Truth,' just released in the States, and admired the acutely revolutionary delivery of the slideshow assisted talk he has now been giving for some 16 years.

News, after all, is a spin of words and pictures. It's a kind of music. There are beats in a newscast, a newspaper story. Ed Murrow sounded like Ed Murrow. Huntley and Brinkley sounded different. Anderson Cooper, different still.