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TV news has largely given Trump editorial control.
As the ratings go up, so does advertising revenue.
Planned Parenthood has a large target on its back.
Sadly, journalism doesn't always state the obvious.
Human faces shouldn't get lost amid the statistics.
I've covered the White House and been yelled at by presidents.
What is happening with automation and globalization, that's not going away.
Our education system is not preparing young people for the world they will face.
It's better to be honest about your opinions than to pretend you don't have them.
I was born and raised in Louisiana - a small town called Ferriday, north of Baton Rouge.
There's no reason why anyone's job should become untouchable for the rest of their life.
Any time you challenge a big powerful person or special interest, there's going to be blowback.
I'm pretty sure the last time any anchor could honestly ignore ratings was well before I was born.
Voters have demonstrated time and again that candidates who buck the teachers' union are rewarded.
You're not going to see me ever be partisan. I'll never take a position on a candidate or an issue.
We are not yet a society free of sexism, and this will continue to be an issue for all women candidates.
If Boston charters can be stymied despite their extraordinary success, charters anywhere can be stopped.
The thing that bothers me about journalism is the false equivalency we sometimes place on certain issues.
When I listen to President Obama speak to and about women, he sometimes sounds too paternalistic for my taste.
Education never quite gets the attention it deserves in presidential campaigns, but monster flip-flops surely do.
Heartless zealotry, whether from the religious right or from the teachers' union on the left, is always troubling.
I'm a mom, and my view of public education begins and ends with the fundamental question: Is this good for children?
Bipartisanship is really tough to achieve when everyone on both sides is left with a bad, bad taste in their mouths.
I'm interested in full disclosure for people who give money to politicians. But I'm not a politician. I'm an advocate.
As David Cameron realizes, we do not have time for the tweaks and increments favored by institutions built to resist change.
Experience is a legitimate issue when John McCain raises it about Obama, and it's also legitimate for us to raise it about Palin.
Parents should be allowed to choose which cable or satellite channels - sources of the most extreme content - come into their homes.
Education has not traditionally been a large concern in presidential elections, presumably because the president does not run schools.
The government sets targets for increased four-year high school graduation rates as part of its agenda for improving Americans' health.
If you live in the overlapping world of politics and media, as I am learning, anything less than full transparency can potentially do you in.
Early on, even before he was the front-runner, TV news was giving Trump far more attention than other candidates and far more than he deserved.
People say, 'Are you going to be beating up one side or the other side?' It's everybody. It's the entire education establishment that is in power.
The 800-pound gorillas of TV news are gone. When I was the White House correspondent at NBC, and Tom Brokaw was anchor, the reporters were protected.
When Wolf Blitzer wears a not-so-great tie, how much e-mail do you think he gets? My point is, for women, unfortunately, appearance is part of the job.
Most of Planned Parenthood's work focuses on health care for low-income women: things like screenings for breast cancer and diabetes, and family planning.
Some women are smarter than men, and some aren't. But to suggest to women that they deserve dominance instead of equality is at best a cheap applause line.
It's understood in the newsroom: Air the Trump rallies live and uninterrupted. He may say something crazy; he often does, and it's always great television.
Our educational establishment is failing; it is past time for courage, honesty, and action commensurate with the need, particularly here in the United States.
After a 15-year career in television news, sometimes spent biting my tongue in the name of objectivity and balance, I retired to raise our two small children.
The simple fact is that not enough people want to watch my program, and I owe it to myself and to CNN to get out of the way so that CNN can try something else.
By resisting almost any change aimed at improving our public schools, teachers' unions have become a ripe target for reformers across the ideological spectrum.
Gay marriage passed in New York because four Republican legislators crossed party lines. They did it in part because they had true bipartisan financial support.
I have been fortunate that publications like the 'New York Times' and 'The Wall Street Journal' have allowed me to share some of my opinions with a wider audience.
I was not so interested in night-after-night coverage of Michael Jackson's death or Britney Spears' latest breakdown - topics that were 'breaking news' at the time.
When an organization is willing to support only lawmakers who are with it 100 percent of the time, it virtually guarantees that the debate will be bitterly partisan.
Someone once told me I looked good in red, so I bought every piece of clothing in red and bright-red lipstick. I had huge hair, as big as I could tease it and spray it.
While the rest of the cable news world moved to opinion, CNN allowed me to stay true to my hard-news roots and supported me with a true commitment to old-school journalism.
The consequences of substandard teaching go far beyond whether college or a good job is in reach. They affect earning potential, with implications throughout a person's life.
We will fiercely challenge those forces within the education establishment who impede innovation in our schools and who protect and defend inequality and institutional failure.
I have had enough of the sexist treatment of Sarah Palin... I call upon the McCain campaign to stop treating Sarah Palin like she is a delicate flower who will wilt at any moment.