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I love CNN. I love the Cartoon Network. I mean, I thought these things up.

CNN will always be the channel people turn on when wars and horrible disasters happen. The 'trick' is getting people to also want to watch it when there aren't hundreds or thousands of people somewhere in the world currently in mortal peril.

I watch practically no TV - ah, what the hell do I watch? Oh, I was for a long time addicted to CNN.

I am amazed that CNN can't get its act together.

CNN's problem goes to its very core and to the identity it's sought ever since the rise of Fox News, on its right: CNN is the channel for people who don't want to watch the other channels! That's a stupid strategy.

I never have my CNN off, it's on the whole day. I don't want to be out of range of television. I'm constantly bombarded by information - Somalia one second, Haiti the next - I need that constant pounding. I couldn't write without television. I need to have the world in my room.

The fact that I'm on CNN today is something I never would have guessed as a 13-year-old - or any other age, for that matter.

Since I arrived at CNN, it has grown into one of the largest and most trusted news organizations in the world.

We're going to develop - what we want to do is to provide the viewers with what they want from CNN and that is the news. So when people tune in, they'll get the latest news, but they'll also get the biggest story of the day in depth, as CNN does so well.

CNN is pretty consistently on the left, if you look at their choice of stories, what they play up. It's not what they say. It's what they highlight.