In most daily journalism, you only fact-check something if it seems a little fishy.

If you want somebody to tell you a story, one of the most easiest and effective ways is if you're telling them a story.

Semiotics is really interested in the questions like, what keeps you watching something, what keeps you - you know, what keeps you listening to a story on the radio? Like, what keeps you turning the pages in a book? What's the pleasure of it that's moving you forward, that's pulling you in and grabbing you and pulling you forward?

I liked the people at Brown, while I really disliked most of the fellow students I had met at Northwestern.

Traditional broadcast media seems old-fashioned and vague to me. When I watch television news, I'm aware of what skilled journalists they are, but I find it hard because of the corny way they present it.

In radio, you have two tools. Sound and silence.