But if you don't enjoy doing something, you'll be miserable no matter how much money you make.

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They've asked me to do this temporarily. I don't know what temporarily means. Life is temporary.

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My job is to give everyone a chance to catch their breath and step back from all this and get back to work.

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I always thought writing was the foundation and the basis for journalism in the same way being able to draw is the foundation for art.

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Had there been a reporter along with Lieutenant Calley when he massacred those people in Vietnam, I think that probably wouldn't have happened.

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American politics used to be an amateur sport. But somewhere along the way, we handed over to professionals all the things people used to do for free.

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It's no longer just reporting the headlines of the day, but trying to put the headlines into some context and to add some perspective into what they mean.

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In so many of the other beats these days, there are these layers of public relations people that you have to go through to get to the newsmakers themselves.

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There's fierce competition between all the networks to get the guest who can bring the most pertinent information about whatever the story of the moment happens to be.

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But with 9/11, we found that people tended to come back to the networks and the people who had been our core viewers in the past came back and they have stayed with us.

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