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If you tailor your news viewing so that you only get one point of view, well of course you're going to think somebody else has got a different point of view, and it may be wrong.

My close proximity to many of the newsmakers can give me a different perspective about people in politics and what they might say than others who don't know them.

We all have our likes and our dislikes. But... when we're doing news - when we're doing the front-page news, not the back page, not the op-ed pages, but when we're doing the daily news, covering politics - it is our duty to be sure that we do not permit our prejudices to show. That is simply basic journalism.

The good news, though, is that I find in my political travels that people, as regular citizens, are more interested than ever in getting together and having discussions. They want to hear about other viewpoints that differ entirely from what the administration is putting out.

I think in politics, in Congress, you often do things that are Republican, or you do things because you're a Democrat. Sometimes that's good, obviously, and sometimes that's obviously bad. But in the news business, there's no such thing as Republican or Democratic news. News is news.

I think that if I would talk on a political subject, if I talk about it, it would divide the audience on that issue. That's not my issue.

The things journalists should pay attention to are the issues the political leadership agrees on, rather than to their supposed antagonisms.

People, not just reporters, are more interested in politics than in government, so the actual issues wouldn't be something that interested them.

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

I'm not sophisticated when it comes to politics, when it comes to journalism.