Some people think I'm a total moron and I would hope most people think I'm very good at what I do.
It was no easy feat becoming Dominick Dunne. Think about it. He was the most celebrated chronicler of downtrodden socialites. He feasted on their famine with little sympathy or admiration for their formerly exalted positions. Yet somehow they invited him back.
Supreme Court arguments and decisions are fascinating to a few of us and really pretty boring to most.
Demanding that all of us presume every defendant innocent outside of a courtroom is to demand that we stop evaluating facts, thereby suffocating independent thought and opinion. There is nothing 'reasonable' about that.
The way police do what they do is under the microscope. You've got people on the one side saying, 'We need to be holding our police accountable.' And you've got a lot of people who support the police saying they're being 'unfairly vilified.'
I am comfortable in my own skin.
For anyone in the news business, just the name 'Cronkite' conjures up images of a bygone era when journalists covered, and could at times impact, the most important stories of the day, rather than the most 'compelling' or salacious.
I read our emails every day and I know there are people out there who think I'm awful.
In 2003, I had testicular cancer, and I didn't tell anyone about it - maybe five people. I had a fairly significant surgery. I was weak, slumped over. I told people at work I'd been in an accident.
Certainly the O.J. Simpson case was a turning point in my career.
I think that in the end, a talk show is a very different animal.
You can be a great reporter and not be such a great talk show host.
I think by laying it out for the viewer I'm avoiding the issue of bias.
They can say I have an opinion about something.
I'm not going to let people get away with either a dishonest or inaccurate premise to what we're talking about because I think that does the viewer a disturbance.
But doing what I do, you will never get unanimity of people.
I have always been an amateur history buff, and I've been fascinated by legal history.
Growing up with a sister, someone I talk to all the time, helps me appreciate women.
I like the feeling that I'm on the right side of history.
I think the Internet is comparable to the Homestead Act: Here's a parcel of land. Sign up, cultivate it, it's yours.
