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I've always been a firm believer in local news, because it's an opportunity to connect with the community where you live.

We have more and more one-newspaper towns, and that troubles me.

We sort of read two or three big newspapers but we don't get the flavor of the local events, the local news as much.

Newspapers always excite curiosity. No one ever puts one down without the feeling of disappointment.

If you take the more general role of going to local stations around the country in Montana or South Carolina or wherever, and start in the local news, it's a lot more difficult to get to the stories that you want to really cover.

People essentially like local news better than network news.

Local television news, on both radio and television, is so appalling. Makes print journalism look like the greatest stuff ever written.

Some of those stories in local newspapers are just as dull and boring as the stories that I get from on-line services, which are basically sort of straight news.

Today, especially, when there are so many stations for viewers to choose from, if they want news, they always come to CNN and that's where I wanted to be.

Something's happened in our society which I don't think is beneficial, and that's that you see the public being fed box-office news. Newscasts now, every local station - I've been traveling around the country a lot, and you see the local news, and they give box-office reports.