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We have newsreaders behaving like actors, lowering their voices if it's a sad story, as if we didn't know it's a sad story. There isn't a single cool newsreader.

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

You want people to feel something when you tell a story, whether they feel happy or whether they feel sad.

There is a great insatiable hunger for good stories throughout the media.

I think everyone feels alone in their sadness, and there's a certain value to hearing other people's sad stories.

It turned out I really didn't like journalism. I wanted to make up stories, not cover real events.

I think that if journalists, reporters who spend a lot of time on a story, are honest with themselves, we all have feelings about our subjects - I mean, unless you're a robot.

Let's use our stories to encourage listening to one another and to hear not just the good news, but also the pain that lies at the back of a lot of people's stories and histories.

It's all storytelling, you know. That's what journalism is all about.

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.