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I didn't like being in a newsroom all the time.

I do know something about the news world. I was sitting on the floors of newsrooms since I was seven years old, and I've been around them my whole life. I understand that someone looks at a story with famous people in it, and you want to put it out.

I hardly ever watch the news... I love reading newspapers, but I know they're dying out.

News is something that happens that matters to you, which is not most of what we watch on television.

In fact, I don't read newspapers any longer.

One reason I left local news was that I was tired of the constant musical chairs among news directors.

I did not read newspapers until I became a reporter.

I don't listen to the news. I don't read the newspaper unless it's eccentric information - and the obituaries, of course.

I'm an expert on the NewsHour and it isn't how I practice journalism. I am not involved in the story. I serve only as a reporter or someone asking questions. I am not the story.

For heaven's sakes, in the newspaper days, when we had competing newspapers, and the newsstands sale was as important as the circulation - as the agreed-upon circulation, whatever you call that - in those days, why, gosh, the sensationalism was tremendous.