Caring about policy is important - people in washington forget.

Knowing policy does help make the gossip more understandable.

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.

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

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

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.