Tom Brokaw

It's all storytelling, you know. That's what journalism is all about.

When I read 'To Kill a Mockingbird,' I was so struck by the universality of small towns.

Here is a secret that no one has told you: Real life is junior high.

What people don't understand about Sarah Palin is that she is a rancher's wife. From Alberta down to Texas I've known women like that: good common sense, bright and vilified by city people.

Shaft was a pop culture figure along t he lines of, I guess, Dirty Harry - except that he wasn't as much of a racist. So yeah, I was always a fan.

Football is controlled violence, but it is violence, which people have loved to watch since the gladiatorial contests in ancient Rome.