You have a specific, defined audience-at MTV, they assume the audience to the news is 15 to 30 years old and they do a lot of research about the things they're interested in.

In the New York Times, you're going to get completely different information than you would in the USA Today.

At MTV, it's very nice sometimes to be able to be very specific. Specificity really makes a news story interesting because you can color it in that personality.

Gossip is easy, politics is hard.

Knowing policy does help make the gossip more understandable.

The constant variety is the most interesting part of my job.

Caring about policy is important - people in washington forget.

At NBC I wasn't really sure if the grandparents were going to get my sense of humor on a particular topic.

At MTV, although the audience is smaller, I found it more interesting to deliver news to a specific group of people, because my story then did not have to try to be all things to all people.

I'm surprised and disappointed in American culture.

I worked at NBC and MTV for two years, and it was very interesting to see the comparisons of audiences and the way that I would have to present a story to the two different places.

I will tear this folly from my heart, though every fibre bleed as I rend it away!

Any political philosophy is perfect in a given moment...but moments are fleeting.

Respect doesn't come without a little resentment.

Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear bright until you hear them speak.

New media companies look remarkably like the old ones they aspire to replace: male, pale, and privileged.

I used to date Olivia Munn... But when she was 'Lisa,' that was the problem. She wasn't Asian back then.

After all, we are not French and never can be, and any attempt to be so is to deny our inheritance and to try to impose upon ourselves a character that can be nothing but a veneer upon the surface.

An author values a compliment even when it comes from a source of doubtful competency.

I have had a great time as president.

Now you wear your skin like iron