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.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I've always been a firm believer in local news, because it's an opportunity to connect with the community where you live.
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.
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.
People essentially like local news better than network news.
You can't expect that because you find a story and report it out that your newspaper and broadcasting company is going to want to publish and broadcast it - and you're going to be a hero.
Journalism makes you think fast. You have to speak to people in all walks of life. Especially local journalism.
I'm not searching for hard news; I'm not a journalist, but I'm interested in pushing to boundaries of where we can do the kind of stories that we want to do. I mean, it's a big world and CNN has made it a lot bigger and they haven't flinched.
When you live in America, it's kind of insular - the news coverage that you get - unless you're really smart about it and find more international news coverage.
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.
Local television news, on both radio and television, is so appalling. Makes print journalism look like the greatest stuff ever written.