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

My general view is the delivery of news is changing in dramatic ways, and will continue to change into ways we can't even predict.

There is always sleaze in the news. And you know what? The news is always a combination of things that are interesting and things that are important.

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

News is the best drama on television because it's real.

Look at the news stand, you know? I mean, it's a cacophony of famous people or people who want to be famous with blurbs all around it, and it's supposed to be, you know, that's supposed to be creativity in journalism. My God, it's unbelievable. It's shocking.

Celebrity culture has gone crazy, and I think the reason is that real news is just not bearable, and it also seems impossible to change anything.

That crossover of whether it's entertainment or news is the biggest crock of b.s. in television today, because it's all entertainment.

An obsessive attention to the news, I've realized, only serves to paint a picture of the world as a throbbing blob of dysfunction, most news falling somewhere on a scale from disappointing to calamitous.