I think the show does better with newsmakers and politicians than it does with actors.
I can't think of any other job in journalism where the newsmakers come to you.
The best thing about the Congress is that it is the last place where you can have face-to-face interviews and interaction with the newsmakers themselves.
I've interviewed the president in the White House. I'd interviewed major newsmakers and Hollywood actors.
My close proximity to many of the newsmakers can give me a different perspective about people in politics and what they might say than others who don't know them.
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.
I'm steeped in the news because I enjoy the news - I like reading papers, I like reading the blogs, I love talking to newsmakers and pundits, for that matter, about their opinions. I'm an information gatherer by nature, so that's what attracted me ab...
The most cursory examination of even the most progressive organs of information reveals a curious inability to recognize women as newsmakers, unless they are young or married to a head of state or naked or pregnant by some triumph of technology or pe...
