'Vogue' celebrates plenty of women of substance.

Editorial outfits are now advertising agencies.

I don't actually go to newsstands anymore.

Nothing is better for a young journalist than to go and write about something that other people don't know about. If you can afford to send yourself to some foreign part, I still think that's by far the best way to break in.

I'm trying to be entertaining without being mean.

I think for a young journalist, it's better to write for the Web at the moment than it is for print.

I love to run smart essays and commentary. But it doesn't replace the other kind of reporting.

I just simply write as it moves me. I may be writing about a book or a movie or a person, places where I've been or something I've done. Or politics. It's going to what's on my mind at the moment.

Admitting weakness seems to be such a severe psychic threat for Bush that when he makes a mistake it's safer just to reinforce it. The strategy creates a perverse system of rewards and punishments.

To win respect, the networks seem to feel they have to keep absurdly overstating their anchors' reporting cred.