I leave CNN with the utmost respect, love and admiration for the company and everyone who works here. This has been my family and shared endeavor for the past 27 years, and I am forever grateful and proud of all that we have accomplished.

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

I have always thought it morally unacceptable to kill stories, not to run stories, that people have risked their lives to get.

What we do and say and show really matters.

Some people accused me of being pro-Muslim in Bosnia, but I realised that our job is to give all sides an equal hearing, but in cases of genocide you can't just be neutral. You can't just say, 'Well, this little boy was shot in the head and killed in besieged Sarajevo and that guy over there did it, but maybe he was upset because he had an argument with his wife.' No, there is no equality there, and we had to tell the truth.

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

Objectivity doesn't mean treating all sides equally. It means giving each side a hearing.