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Whatever the press is talking about, they want to keep talking about it. So instead of asking yourself, 'How can I get them to start talking about me?', figure out a way to get yourself involved in what they're already talking about.

I think people are smart enough to sort it out. They know when they're watching one of these food fight shows where journalists sit around and yell and scream at each other, versus serious issue reporting.

Honestly, everybody gets talked about. Some people control their press a little more than others. Some people feed the press and move it the way they want to. I don't do that.

You're required to be outspoken in journalism, and in television you're exposed anyway, because everyone watches it.

A basic rule of life for reporters is that you should spend your time talking with and learning about people who are not sending you press releases, rather than those who are.

The people must know before they can act, and there is no educator to compare with the press.

The press is the hired agent of a monied system, and set up for no other purpose than to tell lies where their interests are involved. One can trust nobody and nothing.

I think there's a difference between calling people out and understanding the role that the press plays in a free society.

If you're a good journalist, what you do is live a lot of things vicariously, and report them for other people who want to live vicariously.