You don't get to hand footnotes to the audience or explain what you were trying to do and what it's supposed to be. Everything has to be on the screen, and it has to be clear.
People who have experience and credentials, they should be talking about that [Donald Trump presenting on TV]. I know everybody cares about ratings, but come on. The whole world is watching.
Donald Trump is perfectly made up. He's perfectly coiffed. He's perfectly lit.
The only thing I'd ever done with news was to read copy sitting at the microphone in the studio.
On the news two dozen events of fantastically different importance are announced in exactly the same tone of voice. The voice doesn't discriminate between a divorce, a horse race, a war in the Middle East.
There are great news anchors; they're probably very smart, but they're not talking to the audience like real people. They're just reading from a teleprompter.
There's a little bit more of a freedom when you're doing radio play-by-play as opposed to television. I prefer the television side of it.
I rarely come away from presenting the 'Today' programme without some sense of regret. There is always some question that I should have asked, or some point that I should have made. This is annoying but not surprising. Perfection is hard to achieve in a three-hour live programme.
It's not so much that I write well, I just don't write badly very often and that passes for good on television.
The only way to do news on television is not to be terrified of it.
Going from reporter to anchor is like going from wide receiver to quarterback. As anchor, you're running the plays and having the feel of the show - and knowing when to be more upbeat or slow down.
I would never be a television presenter. It's not something I could ever do.
Such a huge amount of respect for people who regularly present live television - it's a skill and it's not easy.
So this is the only TV show in America where I am quite confident that you, the audience, will share my excitement when I tell you that coming up in our next segment, we have the best graph ever. Best graph ever.
I never really thought of myself as a TV critic. I was presenting TV before I was writing about it.
If you look at Japanese drama, I think there is definitely a treasure trove of it, but I just don't think that people know about it. It's got to be pitched and presented better.
Editors always amputate the brain first and preserve a good-looking corpse.
I'm never really aware of mistakes I've made when I'm commentating or on TV, I'm sure they happen sometimes and I guess it makes for a more interesting experience!
The format of the nightly newscasts is still very much 1981 - "Tremble, onlookers! I am the anchorman and now here is a miracle: a report by satellite from many thousands of miles away. I will return to introduce another one in due course."
With TV presenting, I speak a lot anyway!
