I used to be in the news business. It used to be that a rumor was not news. It used to be fact, confirmed. If your mother says she loves you, check it out. Now it's just, 'I heard a rumor, so I'm going to put it out there.' … If you assemble the press corps and say there's no truth to that rumor, that creates another story for the guy that started it in the first place. Then what about the next week and the week after that? There just doesn't seem to be an end to it. We knew that we were all on the same page internally, and that was good enough for us.