If the breaking news event has something to do with young people, specifically with MTV’s audience, there was a higher chance that I would actually go cover it with a television camera instead of just write the story myself and read it on the air.

It’s nice to know about something as soon as it happens, and obviously a newspaper can’t provide that.

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

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.

It’s not like I just have to go to Washington and go to the White House everyday, and go to the same press conference at 10 in the morning and then be briefed at 4 in the afternoon, and then get a story on at 6.

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

Caring about policy is important – people in washington forget.

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.

I’m surprised and disappointed in American culture.

I’ve been told I’m a player, but people still don’t always return my calls.