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Watching the evening news in 2011 is a strange time-travel experience. 'The CBS Evening News,' 'ABC World News' and 'NBC Nightly News' haven't changed their style over the decades, still going for that old-fashioned mix of voice-of-authority pomp and feel-good fluff. The difference is that people aren't watching.

I was for many years myself a journalist and it is not appropriate to say a programme should not be broadcast.

I think a newspaper should be provocative, stir 'em up, but you can't do that on television. It's just not on.

People magazine had been around for a short period of time, but nobody had thought about putting entertainment news on a nightly basis on television.

If MSNBC went off the air tomorrow, what difference would it make? If the 'Huffington Post' went out of business tomorrow, what difference would it make?

At the end of the day, my focus will be to make the 'Evening News' as strong from an editorial perspective as it possibly can be.

Ratings don't last. Good journalism does.

I want the news delivered unbiased. I thought that was the whole point with journalism.

TV news is not very instructive.