Journalist

There's no question that women are more risk averse, thoughtful, and deliberative.

I have always been an amateur history buff, and I've been fascinated by legal history.

I will miss my pal Dominick Dunne. I am sure his funeral will be just the sort of event he would have loved. Based on who will be there, I am sure he wishes he could have been there to cover it.

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.'

While not explicitly articulated in the Constitution, the presumption of innocence has, through Supreme Court opinions, become a fundamental tenet of our criminal-justice system, and rightly so.

My stint as general manager of MSNBC made me particularly sensitive to how the big stories are covered.

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.

I would never have thought, when I was in my 20s, that I would be 44 and single.

I think by laying it out for the viewer I'm avoiding the issue of bias.

Certainly the O.J. Simpson case was a turning point in my career.

Supreme Court arguments and decisions are fascinating to a few of us and really pretty boring to most.

I read our emails every day and I know there are people out there who think I'm awful.

Some people think I'm a total moron and I would hope most people think I'm very good at what I do.

Financial pressures, the demand of ratings, the changing tastes of the American public all led to new decisions in newsrooms about what to cover and how.

To the chagrin of many, the media gravitates towards controversy.

But doing what I do, you will never get unanimity of people.

People constantly complain to me about news coverage of criminal cases. 'What happened to the presumption of innocence?' they ask at almost every turn. Well, I'm tired of it.

When you're behind, you have to work harder. Women have had to work harder to get ahead, and now they are in a place where they are surpassing men.

I am comfortable in my own skin.

They can say I have an opinion about something.