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A journalist covering politics, most of us are aware of the necessity to try to be sure we're unbiased in our reporting. That's one of the fundamentals of good journalism.

The Congressional leaders set the agenda for journalism; it's not the other way around.

I think, though, that people will read into a reporter's story a bias that they want to see in a reporter.

The democratic approach to news is a very valuable thing. We're always going to be dependent on the quality of reporting of mainstream media.

To a journalist, good news is often not news at all.

News, news, news - that is what we want. You cannot beat news in a newspaper.

In essence, I see the value of journalism as resting in a twofold mission: informing the public of accurate and vital information, and its unique ability to provide a truly adversarial check on those in power.

The fundamentals of what journalism is about don't necessarily change. What will change is the delivery of news.

There's a longstanding tradition that journalists don't cheer in the press box. They have opinions, like anyone else, but they are expected to keep those opinions out of their work.

The biases the media has are much bigger than conservative or liberal. They're about getting ratings, about making money, about doing stories that are easy to cover.