Some people continue to pretend that anchor people are reporters.
I watch Channel 4 News every day. I love it. I rarely watch any other news programme. There's just something about it - and I'm not talking about Jon Snow's ties and socks, but I appreciate those, too.
My mentor in the transition from the old Gabriel Heatter and John Cameron Swayze way of doing things was David Brinkley. He brought an entirely different style to what we were doing.
I'm a news junkie. Anderson Cooper, I watch him every night. I watch Piers Morgan a lot as well.
Twenty-four hour news delivers people who stand and talk to camera rather than deliver reported packages with their own camera crew where it's happening.
I've worked with Ed Bradley, Dan Rather and lots of different local news anchors.
News, after all, is a spin of words and pictures. It's a kind of music. There are beats in a newscast, a newspaper story. Ed Murrow sounded like Ed Murrow. Huntley and Brinkley sounded different. Anderson Cooper, different still.
American TV news is much more sophisticated. I think that American TV networks, it looks like, they invest a lot into news.
I like BBC news; I like some London news because you can get it earlier then anywhere else. I like Charlie Rose a lot.
All of our anchors begin their shows with 'Hello from Moscow.'
