What I hope will not change is the understanding that news needs to serve the public interest as its primary goal. That is its greatest calling, to keep freedom and independence alive, and keep it honest.

No doubt the CBS Evening News will be different.

Our hope is that we will see a net increase in projects. The needs in our three-county region (Lake, Porter and LaPorte counties) far outstrip the means.

I got addicted. News, particularly daily news, is more addictive than crack cocaine, more addictive than heroin, more addictive than cigarettes.

I'm all news, all the time. Full power, tall tower. I want to break in when news breaks out. That's my agenda. Now, respectfully, when you start talking about a liberal agenda and all the, quote, 'liberal bias' in the media, I quite frankly, and I say this respectfully but candidly to you, I don't know what you're talking about.

There's an element of relief. (There has been) one change, which is pretty good news (the interest cover test), and obviously the 2% figure on conversion charge is payable over a four-year period -- that's very positive as well.