I have spent the past ten years in just about every war zone there was.

Objectivity means trying to give all sides a hearing. It does not, in my view, mean treating all sides as equal.

In Iran the whole reform and democracy movement has been based on the emerging free press.

Because I am foreign I was assigned to the foreign desk. I kid you not, its true.

But 17 years ago, I arrived at CNN with a suitcase, with my bicycle, and with about 100 dollars.

And I really believe good journalism is good business.

What Americans don't care much about is the piffle we put on TV these days, what they don't care about is boring, irrelevant, badly told stories, and what they really hate is the presumption that they're too stupid to know the difference.