“If our dreams could edit the news (and sometimes our nightmares) these poems are how they’d wake us up to the urgency of our times.”

Who says there’s just one safe way to walk, one road properly lit, and the rest – all slippery water, unmarked?

coming to the end of spring / my grandmother kicks off her shoes / steps out of her faltering body.

The big 3 networks don’t like the fact that there’s a Rush Limbaugh out there, they don’t like the fact that there’s a Fox News, they don’t like the fact that there’s a Matt Drudge. They liked it when it was nice, when it was just the three of them. Well, it ain’t that way anymore.

The evening news is a concept whose time has come and gone.

When good news about the market hits the front page of the New York Times, sell.

You know, I was at CBS News for 28 years. I may have run an unidentified source. Frankly, I don’t remember.

Although computer memory is no longer expensive, there’s always a finite size buffer somewhere. When a big piece of news arrives, everybody sends a message to everybody else, and the buffer fills

No, we don’t sit around in dark corners and plan strategies on how we’re going to slant the news. We don’t have to. It comes naturally to most reporters.

I worked with these liberal elites for 28 years at CBS News, and they were always throwing around the term ‘white trash,’ by which they meant poor southerners who didn’t go to Harvard. I’m not sure why that makes them trash.

Listening to his songs she heard nothing but bad news, still she made her mind up to try to get him win or lose.