Confrontation is not a dirty word. Sometimes it's the best kind of journalism as long you don't confront people just for the sake of a confrontation.

He had a knack for getting things out of people that others never got out of them — niches and hidden moments that they never shared with anyone. But they did with Mike.

One of the problems with modern journalism is that it is not driven by news so much as it is by story elements.

I plan to die at my desk.

I can tell you categorically that we at 60 Minutes did not pay Michael Jackson one cent.

I have a built-in bias against reporters who have axes to grind. I think there are reporters that allow their own bias to encroach on their journalism, and that's a crime against journalism.