My interest generally is the hidden Americans; the ones who live far away from the headlines.
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My readers know my views on politics and politicians because I make no secret of them in my comments for 'The New Yorker' and elsewhere.
I watch sports and cable news. I'm a political junkie, so that's my interest.
Beware the politically obsessed. They are often bright and interesting, but they have something missing in their natures; there is a hole, an empty place, and they use politics to fill it up. It leaves them somehow misshapen.
I think American interests are served when there are sections of the world that have representative governments, politically open economic systems, and are willing to take a stand against some of the more extreme ideologies that there are around the world.
I get much more information about the rest of the world from people who are not Americans. You get a distance from America that is useful for a journalist; useful for my perspective on the world.
I like my subjects to be American, and not too dead, so I can interview people who knew them.
I'm interested in personalities, not political parties.
I cover media people the way they cover politicians.
The only people you and I are likely to know in common are people in the news - politicians, journalists and celebrities.
Our U.S. audience is composed of globally-minded Americans, an elite category, the ones who do have passports, the decision-makers, senior ranks in the administration, senators on Capitol Hill.