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I never take ideas from the headlines. I feel that if a story is good enough, a real story that is, then it's already been covered by the media, and if it's not good enough, why would I want to bother with it?

We don't go into journalism to be popular. It is our job to seek the truth and put constant pressure on our leaders until we get answers.

What we call 'the news' always has tried to tell a story, and it's always told the story it wanted or, put most positively, whatever story it believed needed telling.

Television news is now entertainment, and the stories are being written by the people that have a special interest in them.

My inclination, as an old-school, classically trained journalist, is not to go with a story unless I have it hard. It's not good enough to say something based on rumors that were flying around.

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

People may expect too much of journalism. Not only do they expect it to be entertaining, they expect it to be true.

I've never really found inspiration for story ideas in the news, but I'd say it certainly affects our lives in so many ways. I would say that certainly the stories of the day appear in the work - I just have never gone so far as to say, well, this particular event could influence a plot of an entire book.

You will always have partial points of view, and you'll always have the story behind the story that hasn't come out yet. And any form of journalism you're involved with is going to be up against a biased viewpoint and partial knowledge.

God, newspapers have been making up stories forever. This kind of trifling and fooling around is not a function of the New Journalism.