It doesn't matter if I go on CBS, PBS or Fox. Whoever is interviewing me is going to want to create some conflict in the story, or it's not interesting. That's just the way the news is.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I mean the idea of this is that it's a good thing for the public to hear interviews like this and that there will be an inevitable amount of fewer interviews if people that the press talks to wind up thinking, well, it's not really a CBS correspondent.
Interviewing politicians and movie stars, you know what you'll get. I like the people-stories better.
You turn on the TV, and you see very bland interviews. Journalists in the United States are very cozy with power, very close to those in power.
I would appear on Fox News more easily than I would NPR.
The thing I love about political interviews is, if you're really prepared, you can make great headway because these are the people for whom, theoretically at least, the buck stops.
If I'm going to turn on the television, it's going to be the Fox News channel.
I've interviewed the president in the White House. I'd interviewed major newsmakers and Hollywood actors.
I'm very unrelaxed doing a newspaper interview.
This is the first time in my 32 years in public broadcasting that PBS has ordered up programs for ideological instead of journalistic reasons.
A spontaneous interview feels differently than anything else you see on television.