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If someone says you're a reporter and doesn't want you to anchor then you wonder why you worked so hard at it.

Reporters have to use their imagination, really put themselves in the shoes of the person they want to interview.

I worked in three local news markets and in every single one of them, they said: 'You're a lousy anchor. We would love to renew your contract and have you be our lead reporter here, but we're not going to have you anchor.'

The world reacts very strangely to people they see on TV, and I can begin to understand how anchor monsters are made. If you're not careful, you can become used to being treated as though you're special and begin to expect it. For a reporter, that's the kiss of death.

Journalists are simply leftists disguised as reporters. They're political activists disguised as reporters.

The current wisdom now is that if the three networks are covering the news the same way the difference is the anchor people. I think that won't be true in the future.

Political reporters no longer get to decide what's news. The days when a minister gave briefings to a dozen lobby correspondents, and thereby dictated the next day's headlines, are over. Now, a thousand bloggers decide for themselves what is interesting. If enough of them are tickled then, bingo, you're news.

I am grateful that as a reporter and as an anchor, people have allowed me to share their stories.

To win respect, the networks seem to feel they have to keep absurdly overstating their anchors' reporting cred.